HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080606990
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
12,2km²
Upstream area
1 909,2km²
Discharge
30,38m³/s
Mean elev.
119m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Castor River497 km²
- Bassin de Crooked Creek471 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 12.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
162 distinct species · 1 359 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
561mm/an
PET
1 229mm
AET
919mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
81cm
Forest
10%
Crops
63%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)