HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080560500
Bassin de Embarras 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 4 administrative regions : Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar
Sub-basin area
829,4km²
Upstream area
2 663km²
Discharge
26,9m³/s
Mean elev.
202m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Catfish Creek340 km²
- Bassin de Embarras River312 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 581.3 km²70.0% of basin
- 209.8 km²25.3% of basin
- Clark23.0 km²2.8% of basin
- 16.0 km²1.9% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Hurricane Creek State
IUCN VHabitat Area
1.56 km² overlap
Woodyard
IUCN VConservation Area
1.01 km² overlap
Warbler Woods
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.78 km² overlap
Embarras River - Camargo
IUCN VConservation Area
0.34 km² overlap
Douglas Hart
IUCN VNature Center
0.29 km² overlap
Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Sargent's Woods
IUCN VConservation Area
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 265 distinct species · 396 009 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Embarras River : 24 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
11,5°C
Annual rain
1 010mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
352mm/an
PET
1 102mm
AET
825mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
54cm
Forest
10%
Crops
67%
Urban
3%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)