HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080591460
Bassin de Ohio 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 3 administrative regions : Henderson, Vanderburgh, Warrick
Sub-basin area
274,6km²
Upstream area
252 349,7km²
Discharge
3 702,82m³/s
Mean elev.
124m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ohio River1221 km²
- Bassin de Little Pigeon Creek893 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 196.3 km²71.5% of basin
- Henderson50.6 km²18.4% of basin
- 27.8 km²10.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ashumbala
IUCN Not AssignedNature Preserve
0.21 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 131 distinct species · 137 572 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Ohio River : 30 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
13,3°C
Annual rain
1 130mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
389mm/an
PET
1 184mm
AET
883mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
50cm
Forest
17%
Crops
31%
Urban
20%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)