HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080613800
Bassin de Mississippi 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 2 administrative regions : Ballard, Mississippi
Sub-basin area
25,1km²
Upstream area
2 343 679,8km²
Discharge
14 706,64m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mississippi River1086 km²
- Bassin de Ohio River6 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 18.5 km²73.9% of basin
- 6.6 km²26.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.07 km² overlap
Bird's Blue Hole
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
329 distinct species · 2 215 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Mississippi River : 38 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
1 237mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
587mm/an
PET
1 197mm
AET
924mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
78cm
Forest
60%
Crops
65%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)