HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080697110
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 4 administrative regions : Bolivar, Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington
Sub-basin area
794,9km²
Upstream area
4 283,6km²
Discharge
107,39m³/s
Mean elev.
34m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quiver River917 km²
- Bassin de Big Sunflower River315 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 562.9 km²70.8% of basin
- 127.3 km²16.0% of basin
- Washington104.2 km²13.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
8.50 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.28 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
2.49 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.56 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Humphreys, MS
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.43 km² overlap
Sky Lake
IUCN VLake
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
462 distinct species · 12 583 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 28 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, 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°
17,4°C
Annual rain
1 373mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
849mm/an
PET
1 346mm
AET
1 014mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
4cm
Forest
9%
Crops
61%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)