HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080682880
Bassin de Wichita 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 : Archer, Wichita
Sub-basin area
708,9km²
Upstream area
8 260,3km²
Discharge
8,49m³/s
Mean elev.
320m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Beaver Creek1755 km²
- Bassin de Wichita River1123 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Wichita664.3 km²93.7% of basin
- 44.4 km²6.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wichita Bluff
IUCN VNature Area
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 320 distinct species · 57 469 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 Wichita River : 29 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.1%, 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°
17,4°C
Annual rain
720mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 470mm
AET
609mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
87cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)