HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080681700

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 4 administrative regions : Elbert, Madison, Oglethorpe, Wilkes

Pfafstetter: 73252063

Sub-basin area

383,1km²

Upstream area

2 994,7km²

Discharge

46,12m³/s

Mean elev.

169m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Newford Creek364 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de South Fork Broad River587 km²
Bassin de Broad River434 km²

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Elbert
Georgia · United States
249.9 km²
65.3% of basin
Oglethorpe
Georgia · United States
132.7 km²
34.6% of basin
Madison
Georgia · United States
0.2 km²
0.1% of basin
Wilkes
Georgia · United States
0.1 km²
0.0% of basin

15 intersecting protected areas

2011084
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
5.36 km² overlap
Veribest North Parcel
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.83 km² overlap
2011081
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
2.32 km² overlap
Veribest Stevens
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.00 km² overlap
Panther Tract
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.62 km² overlap
Cold Clear Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Fox
IUCN Not Assigned
Trail
0.45 km² overlap
Millstone Creek Tract
IUCN V
Fee Simple
0.35 km² overlap
Turkey Run
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.34 km² overlap

6 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Octagon
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.28 km² overlap
Kemph (70)
IUCN Not Assigned
Wildlife Sanctuary
0.27 km² overlap
Wilkes Rock South
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.22 km² overlap
Wilkes Rock North
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Veribest South Parcel
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Gretsche
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

461 distinct species · 1 898 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 48 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Broad River : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 144 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

144

Connectance

0.128

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

16,2°C

Annual rain

1 222mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,11

Runoff

401mm/an

PET

1 366mm

AET

976mm

Mean slope

1,9°

Water table

113cm

Forest

85%

Crops

11%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)