HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080606710
Bassin de Castor River Diversion Channel
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 1 administrative regions : Cape Girardeau
Sub-basin area
83km²
Upstream area
2 881km²
Discharge
44,14m³/s
Mean elev.
114m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 83.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
269 distinct species · 1 223 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Castor River Diversion Channel : 23 espèces reliées par 160 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
13,6°C
Annual rain
1 184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
557mm/an
PET
1 227mm
AET
916mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
62cm
Forest
6%
Crops
69%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)