HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080718500
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 3 administrative regions : Bossier, Caddo, Red River
Sub-basin area
242,4km²
Upstream area
156 823,4km²
Discharge
864,2m³/s
Mean elev.
48m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Twelvemile Bayou832 km²
- Bassin de Red River593 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.2 km²46.3% of basin
- 95.1 km²39.2% of basin
- 35.0 km²14.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Red River
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.89 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.86 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 242 distinct species · 201 031 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.0%, 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
1 224mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
423mm/an
PET
1 408mm
AET
1 005mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
15cm
Forest
52%
Crops
32%
Urban
21%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)