HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080046720

Bassin de Pascagoula 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 2 administrative regions : George, Jackson

Pfafstetter: 73290081

Sub-basin area

816,7km²

Upstream area

21 775,6km²

Discharge

381,83m³/s

Mean elev.

28m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Black Creek3230 km²
Bassin de Pascagoula River580 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Jackson
Mississippi · United States
657.1 km²
80.5% of basin
George
Mississippi · United States
156.7 km²
19.2% of basin

16 intersecting protected areas

Pascagoula W
IUCN V
Dog Hunting Area
39.62 km² overlap
Ward Bayou W
IUCN V
Dog Hunting Area
36.01 km² overlap
Pascagoula River Marsh Coastal Preserve
IUCN IV
Marine Protected Area
35.34 km² overlap
Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN IV
Marine Protected Area
32.71 km² overlap
Mississippi Sandhill Crane
IUCN IV
National Wildlife Refuge
32.25 km² overlap
Pascagoula River
IUCN V
Coastal Reserve
26.45 km² overlap
Ward Bayou
IUCN V
Still Hunting Area
11.18 km² overlap
Pascagoula
IUCN V
Still Hunting Area
7.47 km² overlap
Pascagoula River Marshes (Feb 2003)
IUCN V
Environmental System
4.00 km² overlap

7 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Pascago
IUCN V
PRIVATE
0.98 km² overlap
Pascagoula River Wma Macrosite Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.67 km² overlap
Private
IUCN V
PRIVATE
0.64 km² overlap
Ward Ba
IUCN V
PRIVATE
0.32 km² overlap
Pascagoula River Marsh Macrosite Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.30 km² overlap
W
IUCN V
Handicap Area
0.07 km² overlap
Red Cree
IUCN V
Still Hunting Area
0.03 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 657 distinct species · 81 774 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Pascagoula River : 30 espèces reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.101

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

19,2°C

Annual rain

1 642mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,16

Runoff

727mm/an

PET

1 383mm

AET

1 219mm

Mean slope

0,8°

Water table

40cm

Forest

87%

Crops

Urban

Protected

14%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)