HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080730200
Bassin de Neches 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 5 administrative regions : Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Houston, Smith
Sub-basin area
2 337km²
Upstream area
4 204,5km²
Discharge
40,76m³/s
Mean elev.
137m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Flat Creek360 km²
- Bassin de Neches River54 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Anderson1262.8 km²54.1% of basin
- Cherokee733.1 km²31.4% of basin
- Henderson196.9 km²8.4% of basin
- Smith119.0 km²5.1% of basin
- Houston23.5 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Neches River
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
28.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 194 distinct species · 52 317 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 Neches River : 33 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, 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°
18,8°C
Annual rain
1 076mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
289mm/an
PET
1 447mm
AET
910mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
146cm
Forest
65%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)