HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080672080
Bassin de Tennessee River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Blount, Cullman, Marshall
Sub-basin area
655,1km²
Upstream area
63 438,5km²
Discharge
1 524,13m³/s
Mean elev.
259m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Short Creek556 km²
- Bassin de Tennessee River4 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 572.0 km²87.3% of basin
- 82.3 km²12.6% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 075 distinct species · 129 505 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Tennessee River : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
15,4°C
Annual rain
1 421mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
598mm/an
PET
1 316mm
AET
1 019mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
240cm
Forest
58%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)