HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080696730
Bassin de North Fork Edisto 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 : Aiken, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg, Saluda
Sub-basin area
2 016,5km²
Upstream area
2 016,5km²
Discharge
28,31m³/s
Mean elev.
108m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 825.3 km²40.9% of basin
- 723.9 km²35.9% of basin
- 290.1 km²14.4% of basin
- Calhoun172.2 km²8.5% of basin
- 4.3 km²0.2% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Us-Sc-10-19
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
3.94 km² overlap
Us-Sc-28-1
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.53 km² overlap
Us-Sc-10-4
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.74 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.10 km² overlap
Janet Harrison High Pond
IUCN IIIHeritage Preserve
0.03 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 127 distinct species · 46 564 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 North Fork Edisto River : 30 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
1 217mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
454mm/an
PET
1 408mm
AET
1 022mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
110cm
Forest
15%
Crops
16%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)