HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080705110
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 : Chilton, Coosa, Shelby
Sub-basin area
552,7km²
Upstream area
23 955,2km²
Discharge
439,35m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Coosa River1063 km²
- Bassin de Waxahatchee Creek511 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 372.4 km²67.4% of basin
- 180.0 km²32.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Coosa
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
26.47 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 256 distinct species · 8 182 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 : 36 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
1 423mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
535mm/an
PET
1 390mm
AET
1 057mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
151cm
Forest
84%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)