HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080709060
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 2 administrative regions : Sharkey, Yazoo
Sub-basin area
103,2km²
Upstream area
6 560,4km²
Discharge
160,23m³/s
Mean elev.
32m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 51.9 km²50.3% of basin
- 51.2 km²49.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Sunflower
IUCN VState Conservation Area
26.65 km² overlap
Lake George
IUCN VState Conservation Area
17.79 km² overlap
Sunf
IUCN VGreentree
0.51 km² overlap
Private 16
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.36 km² overlap
Private
IUCN VPRIVATE
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
133 distinct species · 306 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 Big Sunflower River : 31 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
1 384mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
795mm/an
PET
1 383mm
AET
1 031mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
18cm
Forest
0%
Crops
70%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)