HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080347290
Bassin de Embarrass 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 1 administrative regions : Saint Louis
Sub-basin area
517km²
Upstream area
517,3km²
Discharge
6,81m³/s
Mean elev.
453m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 518.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Darwin S. Myers
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
3.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
761 distinct species · 7 034 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 Embarrass River : 23 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, 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°
2,9°C
Annual rain
722mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
439mm/an
PET
798mm
AET
607mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
32cm
Forest
75%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)