HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080632750
Bassin de Buffalo 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 3 administrative regions : Baxter, Marion, Searcy
Sub-basin area
118km²
Upstream area
3 465,1km²
Discharge
44,47m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Buffalo River586 km²
- Bassin de Long Creek346 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BaxterArkansas · United States69.2 km²58.6% of basin
- MarionArkansas · United States46.3 km²39.2% of basin
- SearcyArkansas · United States2.5 km²2.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Leatherwood
IUCN IbWilderness
66.23 km² overlap
Buffalo National River
IUCN IbWilderness Area
36.61 km² overlap
Sylamore
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
13.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
303 distinct species · 592 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Buffalo River : 37 espèces reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
1 158mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
434mm/an
PET
1 303mm
AET
945mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
397cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)