HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080712260
Bassin de Red 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 4 administrative regions : Bossier, Caddo, Lafayette, Miller
Sub-basin area
592,7km²
Upstream area
147 473,3km²
Discharge
747,81m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sulphur River2554 km²
- Bassin de Red River1975 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 280.7 km²47.4% of basin
- 182.3 km²30.8% of basin
- LafayetteArkansas · United States111.0 km²18.7% of basin
- MillerArkansas · United States18.5 km²3.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
6.14 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 385 distinct species · 41 782 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 River : 23 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.1%, 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°
17,8°C
Annual rain
1 222mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
407mm/an
PET
1 402mm
AET
1 007mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
50cm
Forest
45%
Crops
30%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)