HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080674140
Bassin de Amicalola Creek
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 4 administrative regions : Dawson, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens
Sub-basin area
249,3km²
Upstream area
249,3km²
Discharge
5,94m³/s
Mean elev.
538m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 222.7 km²89.3% of basin
- 21.4 km²8.6% of basin
- Pickens4.3 km²1.7% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Dawson Forest
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
65.63 km² overlap
Amicalola Falls
IUCN IIIState Park
3.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 275 distinct species · 43 978 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Amicalola Creek : 28 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
13,6°C
Annual rain
1 596mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
735mm/an
PET
1 226mm
AET
1 045mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
238cm
Forest
100%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)