HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080676560
Bassin de Smith 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 2 administrative regions : New Hanover, Pender
Sub-basin area
157,3km²
Upstream area
4 414,1km²
Discharge
55,76m³/s
Mean elev.
7m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Northeast Cape Fear River610 km²
- Bassin de Long Creek326 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 144.0 km²91.5% of basin
- 13.3 km²8.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
1.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 851 distinct species · 140 362 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Smith Creek : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
1 376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
415mm/an
PET
1 296mm
AET
1 108mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
19cm
Forest
62%
Crops
3%
Urban
36%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)