HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080724060
Bassin de Bayou Macon
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 : Catahoula, Franklin, Madison
Sub-basin area
394,7km²
Upstream area
2 497,9km²
Discharge
55,64m³/s
Mean elev.
25m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bayou Macon1128 km²
- Bassin de Joes Bayou310 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Franklin319.4 km²81.0% of basin
- Madison71.2 km²18.0% of basin
- 3.9 km²1.0% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
11.90 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.55 km² overlap
Easement
1.15 km² overlap
Us-La-42-8
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.14 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.94 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Franklin, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.85 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.74 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.32 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
189 distinct species · 1 222 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Bayou Macon : 28 espèces reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
1 404mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
728mm/an
PET
1 414mm
AET
1 058mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
12%
Crops
57%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)