HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080579260
Bassin de Wabash 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 : Gibson, Knox, Lawrence, Wabash
Sub-basin area
684,3km²
Upstream area
42 721,4km²
Discharge
498,39m³/s
Mean elev.
135m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Embarras River1241 km²
- Bassin de Wabash River794 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Knox317.1 km²46.3% of basin
- Lawrence187.1 km²27.3% of basin
- 180.6 km²26.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Area
4.10 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.79 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.67 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 639 distinct species · 8 835 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Wabash River : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.4%, 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°
12,6°C
Annual rain
1 106mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
392mm/an
PET
1 150mm
AET
870mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
43cm
Forest
6%
Crops
74%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)