HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080607340
Bassin de Castor 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 : Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Stoddard, Wayne
Sub-basin area
496,7km²
Upstream area
1 426,6km²
Discharge
22,74m³/s
Mean elev.
153m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080608290715 km²
- Bassin · #7080608440215 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 458.6 km²92.3% of basin
- 21.6 km²4.4% of basin
- 15.5 km²3.1% of basin
- Wayne1.2 km²0.2% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Castor River
IUCN VConservation Area
17.15 km² overlap
State Conservation Area or Park
5.05 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.12 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.42 km² overlap
Clubb Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
1.73 km² overlap
Sweetgum
IUCN VAccess
0.64 km² overlap
Sank
IUCN VConservation Area
0.47 km² overlap
Maple Flats
IUCN VAccess
0.29 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.20 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Grassy Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.11 km² overlap
Blue Pond
IUCN VNatural Area
0.06 km² overlap
Block Hole
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
837 distinct species · 12 319 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
13,2°C
Annual rain
1 186mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
546mm/an
PET
1 233mm
AET
921mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
120cm
Forest
56%
Crops
31%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)