HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080676880
Bassin de Quitaque Creek
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 : Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher
Sub-basin area
699,8km²
Upstream area
699,9km²
Discharge
0,05m³/s
Mean elev.
997m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Floyd485.1 km²69.3% of basin
- 116.3 km²16.6% of basin
- 74.7 km²10.7% of basin
- Hale23.5 km²3.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
277 distinct species · 3 762 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Quitaque Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,4°C
Annual rain
518mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 384mm
AET
439mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
86cm
Forest
0%
Crops
65%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)