HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080677010
Bassin de Arkansas 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 : Grant, Jefferson, Pulaski, Saline
Sub-basin area
1 169,4km²
Upstream area
404 041,9km²
Discharge
1 245,06m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Maumelle River874 km²
- Bassin de Fourche Creek434 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- JeffersonArkansas · United States552.4 km²47.2% of basin
- PulaskiArkansas · United States419.0 km²35.8% of basin
- SalineArkansas · United States149.3 km²12.8% of basin
- GrantArkansas · United States48.5 km²4.1% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
57.47 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.79 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
4.19 km² overlap
Lorance Creek
IUCN VNatural Area
1.19 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.19 km² overlap
Taylor Woodlands
IUCN VNatural Area
0.15 km² overlap
Lorance Creek
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 137 distinct species · 188 836 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 Arkansas River : 29 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
1 274mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
439mm/an
PET
1 321mm
AET
993mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
35cm
Forest
50%
Crops
29%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)