State Wild or Scenic River · usa
Calcasieu River
- Area
- 37 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
Overview
- Designation
- State Wild or Scenic River
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- State Fish and Wildlife
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
74 distinct species · 90 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 Calcasieu River : 12 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 0 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
44,2km
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
5 938km²
Discharge in basins
0,9m³/s
Mean precip.
1 458mm/an
Mean T°
18,8°C
Moisture idx
0,01
Max snow
1%
Mean runoff
544mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
77m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Calcasieu Riverord 6len here30.64 km11%total271 km
- Caney Branchord 3len here6.35 km47%total14 km
- Big Creekord 3len here2.79 km11%total25 km
- Greys Creekord 1len here0.93 km26%total4 km
- Menace Creekord 1len here0.77 km12%total6 km
- Ball Branchord 1len here0.66 km36%total2 km
- Boggy Branchord 1len here0.57 km5%total12 km
- Merchant Branchord 2len here0.42 km70%total1 km
- Floctaw Creekord 2len here0.27 km2%total14 km
- Mims Creekord 1len here0.26 km4%total6 km
- Marsh Bayouord 5len here0.15 km1%total10 km
- Big Sloughord 2len here0.13 km7%total2 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Burton Creekord 2len here0.08 km1%total7 km
- Bayou Arceneauxord 3len here0.08 km0%total18 km
- Hickory Gullyord 1len here0.04 km1%total4 km
- Barnes Creekord 2len here0.03 km0%total53 km
- Goodman Branchord 4len here0.02 km0%total5 km
- Lemeuse Creekord 4len here≈ tangenttotal5 km
- Blounts Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal8 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 31.21755, -93.09451
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.