HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080681130
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 4 administrative regions : Lexington, Newberry, Richland, Saluda
Sub-basin area
924,3km²
Upstream area
6 533,8km²
Discharge
101,03m³/s
Mean elev.
127m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Clouds Creek873 km²
- Bassin de Bush River505 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 671.3 km²72.7% of basin
- 160.7 km²17.4% of basin
- Richland51.5 km²5.6% of basin
- 40.5 km²4.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 603 distinct species · 506 262 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
1 204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
400mm/an
PET
1 390mm
AET
999mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
104cm
Forest
39%
Crops
9%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)