HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080412920
Bassin de Dawson 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 1 administrative regions : Banana
Sub-basin area
888,9km²
Upstream area
26 563,3km²
Discharge
16,96m³/s
Mean elev.
235m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dawson River1721 km²
- Bassin de Oxtrack Creek836 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 887.1 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Isla Gorge
IUCN IINational Park
52.04 km² overlap
Shankeen
IUCN VINature Refuge
39.68 km² overlap
Oxtrack
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.82 km² overlap
Woodine
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 305 distinct species · 7 573 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Dawson River : 26 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
20,5°C
Annual rain
678mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 697mm
AET
573mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
401cm
Forest
10%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)