HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080636230
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 : Boone, Madison, Newton
Sub-basin area
565,4km²
Upstream area
565,4km²
Discharge
7,15m³/s
Mean elev.
518m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NewtonArkansas · United States531.4 km²94.0% of basin
- BooneArkansas · United States28.3 km²5.0% of basin
- MadisonArkansas · United States5.9 km²1.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Buffalo National River
IUCN IbWilderness Area
52.72 km² overlap
Upper Buffalo
IUCN IbWilderness
48.79 km² overlap
Buffalo, Arkansas
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
19.37 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
4.78 km² overlap
Buffalo
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.69 km² overlap
Pine Hollow
IUCN VNatural Area
0.52 km² overlap
Buffalo River Karst
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 296 distinct species · 38 144 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
1 194mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
385mm/an
PET
1 209mm
AET
952mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
452cm
Forest
100%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)