HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080712910
Bassin de Cahaba 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 : Bibb, Dallas, Perry, Tuscaloosa
Sub-basin area
1 562,8km²
Upstream area
3 927,4km²
Discharge
69,42m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sixmile Creek687 km²
- Bassin de Cahaba River242 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 796.0 km²51.0% of basin
- 728.8 km²46.7% of basin
- 33.2 km²2.1% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Easement #290
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
2.95 km² overlap
Barton's Beach
IUCN VPreserve
0.51 km² overlap
Pratt's Ferry
IUCN VPreserve
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 710 distinct species · 61 038 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Cahaba River : 28 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.0%, 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
1 424mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
535mm/an
PET
1 378mm
AET
1 051mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
133cm
Forest
98%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)