HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080686950
Bassin de Wateree 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 2 administrative regions : Richland, Sumter
Sub-basin area
7km²
Upstream area
14 572,8km²
Discharge
207,35m³/s
Mean elev.
29m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wateree River1237 km²
- Bassin de Shank's Creek242 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Richland4.5 km²64.4% of basin
- Sumter2.5 km²35.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Congaree
IUCN IINational Park
4.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
762 distinct species · 4 604 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Wateree River : 29 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.8%, 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°
17,6°C
Annual rain
1 154mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
463mm/an
PET
1 387mm
AET
975mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
12cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)