HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080558760
Bassin de Paint 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 3 administrative regions : Fayette, Highland, Ross
Sub-basin area
140km²
Upstream area
736,5km²
Discharge
9,28m³/s
Mean elev.
286m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Paint Creek370 km²
- Bassin de Sugar Creek227 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fayette71.4 km²51.0% of basin
- 42.4 km²30.2% of basin
- 26.3 km²18.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Paint Creek Lake
IUCN VWildlife Area
8.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
344 distinct species · 1 665 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Paint Creek : 38 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
11,2°C
Annual rain
1 021mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
387mm/an
PET
1 063mm
AET
820mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
90cm
Forest
5%
Crops
76%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)