HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080588190
Bassin de Arkansas 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 : Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Pawnee
Sub-basin area
634,2km²
Upstream area
78 116,8km²
Discharge
22,42m³/s
Mean elev.
700m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arkansas River599 km²
- Bassin de Mulberry Creek526 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ford278.8 km²43.9% of basin
- Edwards263.4 km²41.5% of basin
- 55.9 km²8.8% of basin
- 36.5 km²5.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
554 distinct species · 8 161 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Arkansas River : 26 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.8%, 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
605mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 277mm
AET
515mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
61cm
Forest
0%
Crops
79%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)