HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080681050
Bassin de Broad 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 5 administrative regions : Chester, Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, Richland
Sub-basin area
1 955,4km²
Upstream area
13 767km²
Discharge
223,2m³/s
Mean elev.
125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Enoree River1905 km²
- Bassin de Beaver Creek129 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fairfield947.8 km²48.5% of basin
- Richland545.0 km²27.9% of basin
- 407.4 km²20.8% of basin
- Chester31.9 km²1.6% of basin
- 22.9 km²1.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.53 km² overlap
Nipper Creek
IUCN IIIHeritage Preserve
0.41 km² overlap
Conservation Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 348 distinct species · 78 093 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 Broad River : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
1 187mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
375mm/an
PET
1 371mm
AET
982mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
151cm
Forest
88%
Crops
4%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)