HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080044770
Bassin de Caloosahatchee 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 : Lee
Sub-basin area
50,7km²
Upstream area
17 056,5km²
Discharge
159,77m³/s
Mean elev.
9m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Caloosahatchee River314 km²
- Bassin de Trout Creek171 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lee50.6 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Caloosahatchee Creeks
IUCN VPreserve
1.45 km² overlap
Orange River
IUCN VPreserve
0.25 km² overlap
Caloosahatchee
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.05 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 063 distinct species · 57 170 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Caloosahatchee River : 31 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.3%, 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
374mm/an
PET
1 581mm
AET
1 118mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
13cm
Forest
3%
Crops
11%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)