HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080046900
Bassin de The Rigolets
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 : Orleans, Saint Tammany
Sub-basin area
136,7km²
Upstream area
13 745,8km²
Discharge
289,17m³/s
Mean elev.
3m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bayou Saint John1204 km²
- Bassin de Lacombe Bayou1022 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 74.4 km²54.5% of basin
- 62.2 km²45.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bayou Sauvage
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
23.10 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
23.10 km² overlap
Big Branch Marsh
IUCN VNational Wildlife Refuge
17.35 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
16.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
673 distinct species · 68 006 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 The Rigolets : 21 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 516mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
642mm/an
PET
1 391mm
AET
1 165mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
4cm
Forest
39%
Crops
1%
Urban
8%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)