HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080680700
Bassin de Lynches 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 6 administrative regions : Chesterfield, Darlington, Florence, Kershaw, Lee +1
Sub-basin area
556,8km²
Upstream area
2 106,2km²
Discharge
26,04m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lynches River1048 km²
- Bassin de Hanging Rock Creek502 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 300.2 km²53.9% of basin
- 129.0 km²23.2% of basin
- 86.8 km²15.6% of basin
- Sumter29.8 km²5.3% of basin
- 9.8 km²1.8% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
7.93 km² overlap
Lee
IUCN IIIState Park
7.26 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.86 km² overlap
USFWS Easement, Former Fmha/Alexander
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.11 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 562 distinct species · 17 018 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Lynches River : 19 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, 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°
16,8°C
Annual rain
1 164mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
471mm/an
PET
1 357mm
AET
983mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
36cm
Forest
8%
Crops
35%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)