HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080048780
Bassin de Chiltipin Creek
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 5 administrative regions : Aransas, Bee, Live Oak, Refugio, San Patricio
Sub-basin area
2 296,4km²
Upstream area
2 296,4km²
Discharge
5,7m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1061.4 km²46.3% of basin
- 1059.8 km²46.2% of basin
- 157.5 km²6.9% of basin
- 8.3 km²0.4% of basin
- 5.5 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Grassland Reserve Program (GRP), San Patricio, TX
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
13.69 km² overlap
Grasslands Reserve Program (GRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
13.69 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
1.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 529 distinct species · 85 347 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Chiltipin Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
820mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
119mm/an
PET
1 499mm
AET
694mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
39cm
Forest
9%
Crops
44%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)