HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080675580
Bassin de Saluda 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 9 administrative regions : Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Henderson +4
Sub-basin area
1 751,3km²
Upstream area
1 751,3km²
Discharge
37,9m³/s
Mean elev.
331m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 697.9 km²39.9% of basin
- Pickens404.2 km²23.1% of basin
- Anderson337.8 km²19.3% of basin
- Greenwood141.7 km²8.1% of basin
- 99.2 km²5.7% of basin
- Laurens64.0 km²3.7% of basin
- Henderson3.2 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Polk1.3 km² · 0.1%
30 intersecting protected areas
North Saluda Watershed
IUCN VWatershed
65.35 km² overlap
Poinsett
IUCN VReservoir
38.30 km² overlap
Caesars Head
IUCN IIIState Park
18.52 km² overlap
Jocassee Gorges
IUCN VWildlife Management Area Other
16.80 km² overlap
Jones Gap
IUCN IIIState Park
15.75 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
5.53 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
4.52 km² overlap
Causey Tract
IUCN VWildlife Management Area Other
3.23 km² overlap
Cleveland Farm Tracts
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.65 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Riverbend Shoals
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.21 km² overlap
Townes Tract
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.21 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
1.02 km² overlap
Sweetwater
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.83 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E2016107A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.75 km² overlap
Mountain Bridge Passage
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.71 km² overlap
Bald Rock
IUCN IIIHeritage Preserve
0.68 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.47 km² overlap
Hester Dairy
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.45 km² overlap
Valley View
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.40 km² overlap
River Ridgeline
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.35 km² overlap
Lakemont Colony
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.33 km² overlap
Blakely Tracts B, C
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.27 km² overlap
Grant Meadow
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
River Ridgeline II
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.12 km² overlap
Jones Tree Farm
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.12 km² overlap
McDiarmid Tract
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Culbertson South Saluda
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Blythe-Goodwin-Hagood House
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Conservation Fund
IUCN VPreserve
0.02 km² overlap
Preserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 504 distinct species · 188 998 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Saluda River : 21 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
1 391mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
638mm/an
PET
1 296mm
AET
1 014mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
208cm
Forest
69%
Crops
8%
Urban
4%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)