HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080710620
Bassin de Red Chute Bayou
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 : Bossier, Columbia, Lafayette, Webster
Sub-basin area
1 302km²
Upstream area
1 882,9km²
Discharge
25,03m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080693660372 km²
- Bassin · #7080693740209 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 628.2 km²48.3% of basin
- LafayetteArkansas · United States538.4 km²41.4% of basin
- Webster115.6 km²8.9% of basin
- ColumbiaArkansas · United States19.0 km²1.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lafayette
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
55.08 km² overlap
Us-La-110-2
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 213 distinct species · 12 498 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 Red Chute Bayou : 31 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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 264mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
419mm/an
PET
1 400mm
AET
1 025mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
41cm
Forest
96%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)