HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080687960
Bassin de Little 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 8 administrative regions : Abbeville, Anderson, Columbia, Elbert, Greenwood +3
Sub-basin area
2 410,6km²
Upstream area
13 896,3km²
Discharge
229,58m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Beaverdam Creek2189 km²
- Bassin de Newford Creek364 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 969.4 km²40.2% of basin
- 544.2 km²22.6% of basin
- 409.1 km²17.0% of basin
- 241.8 km²10.0% of basin
- Greenwood172.3 km²7.1% of basin
- Anderson73.0 km²3.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- Columbia0.0 km²0.0% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Fishing Creek
IUCN IIIWildlife Management Area
11.17 km² overlap
Soap Creek
IUCN IIIWildlife Management Area
7.45 km² overlap
High Meadows
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
4.12 km² overlap
Wilkes County
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.41 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.64 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.10 km² overlap
Harmon Tract
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.65 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.62 km² overlap
Long Cane Creek
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.35 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Three Mile Creek
IUCN VRestrictive Covenant (DOD/DOE)
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 601 distinct species · 117 604 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Little River : 27 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
16,3°C
Annual rain
1 196mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 375mm
AET
971mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
101cm
Forest
81%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)