HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080699720
Bassin de Ouachita 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 : Ashley, Union
Sub-basin area
198,9km²
Upstream area
27 546,7km²
Discharge
415,71m³/s
Mean elev.
42m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ouachita River388 km²
- Bassin de Saline River8 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- AshleyArkansas · United States191.1 km²96.1% of basin
- UnionArkansas · United States7.7 km²3.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Felsenthal
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
37.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
843 distinct species · 5 106 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Ouachita River : 28 espèces reliées par 124 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
1 384mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
536mm/an
PET
1 400mm
AET
1 046mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
32cm
Forest
94%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)