HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080609290
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 4 administrative regions : Livingston, Massac, McCracken, Pope
Sub-basin area
403km²
Upstream area
524 856,5km²
Discharge
7 814,99m³/s
Mean elev.
119m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ohio River108 km²
- Bassin de Tennessee River9 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 261.3 km²64.8% of basin
- 140.1 km²34.8% of basin
- Livingston1.2 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Fort Massac
IUCN VState Park
5.56 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
4.62 km² overlap
Perkins Creek
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.33 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.31 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), McCracken, KY
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 769 distinct species · 56 646 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 26 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
13,9°C
Annual rain
1 234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
446mm/an
PET
1 206mm
AET
925mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
57cm
Forest
12%
Crops
61%
Urban
13%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)