HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080701450
Bassin de Coosa 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 : Coosa, Shelby, Talladega
Sub-basin area
1 063,4km²
Upstream area
22 891,1km²
Discharge
421,03m³/s
Mean elev.
171m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Coosa River524 km²
- Bassin de Coosa River2 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 713.9 km²67.2% of basin
- 253.7 km²23.9% of basin
- 95.4 km²9.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201348P
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.88 km² overlap
Dunnavant Valley
IUCN VGreenway
0.14 km² overlap
Adams Scenic Overlook
IUCN VConservation Land
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 053 distinct species · 53 087 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Coosa River : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
16,6°C
Annual rain
1 429mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
552mm/an
PET
1 397mm
AET
1 060mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
148cm
Forest
85%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)