HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080045040
Bassin de Little Manatee 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 4 administrative regions : Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk
Sub-basin area
1 047,7km²
Upstream area
1 047,7km²
Discharge
0,75m³/s
Mean elev.
20m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 625.3 km²59.8% of basin
- 377.3 km²36.1% of basin
- 6.9 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve
IUCN IVMarine Protected Area
19.85 km² overlap
Little Manatee
IUCN VRiver Corridor
15.93 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
13.90 km² overlap
Local Conservation Area
10.74 km² overlap
Little Manatee River
IUCN IIIState Park
9.84 km² overlap
Terra Ceia
IUCN VPreserve State Park
7.88 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
7.73 km² overlap
Balm Scrub
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
6.41 km² overlap
Little Manatee River
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
5.72 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Upper Little Manatee River
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
5.62 km² overlap
Wolf Branch
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
5.40 km² overlap
Golden Aster Scrub
IUCN VNature Preserve
4.78 km² overlap
Cockroach Bay
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
3.95 km² overlap
Bullfrog Creek Scrub
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
3.15 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
2.47 km² overlap
Cockroach Bay
IUCN VPreserve State Park
2.47 km² overlap
Cockroach Creek
IUCN VGreenway
2.24 km² overlap
The Kitchen
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
1.58 km² overlap
Balm-Boyette Scrub
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
1.17 km² overlap
Emerson Point
IUCN VPreserve
0.93 km² overlap
Curiosity Creek
IUCN VPreserve
0.80 km² overlap
Doyle Campbell Memorial
IUCN VPark
0.80 km² overlap
Port Manatee
IUCN VConservation Area
0.69 km² overlap
Duette
IUCN VPreserve
0.59 km² overlap
Open Space
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.16 km² overlap
Audubon Society Sanctuary or Preserve
0.13 km² overlap
Felts Audubon
IUCN VPreserve
0.11 km² overlap
Bell Creek
IUCN VPreserve
0.09 km² overlap
Wayside
IUCN VPark
0.03 km² overlap
Headwaters at Duette
IUCN VPreserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 876 distinct species · 639 888 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Manatee River : 30 espèces reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
411mm/an
PET
1 503mm
AET
1 071mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
26cm
Forest
7%
Crops
29%
Urban
19%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)