HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080045420
Bassin de Waccasassa 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 : Alachua, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion
Sub-basin area
2 181,9km²
Upstream area
2 181,9km²
Discharge
1,1m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1974.2 km²90.6% of basin
- 69.4 km²3.2% of basin
- Marion53.2 km²2.4% of basin
- 32.2 km²1.5% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
Waccasassa Bay
IUCN VPreserve State Park
131.48 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
129.18 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
61.40 km² overlap
Lower Suwannee
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
50.07 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
49.18 km² overlap
Cedar Key Scrub
IUCN VState Reserve
20.33 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
19.83 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
3.62 km² overlap
Cedar Keys
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.65 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Pond
1.92 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.17 km² overlap
Ashton
IUCN VBiological Preserve
0.27 km² overlap
Watermelon
IUCN Not AssignedPond
0.27 km² overlap
Sheppard
IUCN VSanctuary
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 493 distinct species · 352 216 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 Waccasassa River : 29 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.6%, 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 303mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
357mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
1 101mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
15cm
Forest
69%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)