HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080047500
Bassin de Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
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 : Saint Mary
Sub-basin area
277,4km²
Upstream area
277,4km²
Discharge
6,38m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 277.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bayou Teche
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
11.47 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
307 distinct species · 9 322 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 Gulf Intracoastal Waterway : 31 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 597mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
750mm/an
PET
1 352mm
AET
1 241mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
80%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)