HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080692500
Bassin de Big Sunflower 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 : Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington
Sub-basin area
315km²
Upstream area
2 571,5km²
Discharge
64,12m³/s
Mean elev.
37m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Big Sunflower River1724 km²
- Bassin de Big Sunflower River532 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 215.2 km²68.4% of basin
- 98.6 km²31.3% of basin
- Washington1.0 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
9.89 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Sunflower, MS
IUCN VConservation Easement
3.72 km² overlap
Indianola
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.02 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
307 distinct species · 1 822 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 Big Sunflower River : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 141 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
1 373mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
843mm/an
PET
1 332mm
AET
1 010mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
3cm
Forest
16%
Crops
84%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)