HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080712410
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 4 administrative regions : Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore
Sub-basin area
1 099,9km²
Upstream area
26 363,5km²
Discharge
479,25m³/s
Mean elev.
143m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hatchet Creek1308 km²
- Bassin de Coosa River553 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 572.4 km²52.1% of basin
- 283.5 km²25.8% of basin
- 210.1 km²19.1% of basin
- 33.3 km²3.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Coosa
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 755 distinct species · 19 557 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 : 37 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
17,1°C
Annual rain
1 410mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
521mm/an
PET
1 391mm
AET
1 051mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
126cm
Forest
82%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)