HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080732230
Bassin de Hemphill Creek
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 2 administrative regions : Catahoula, La Salle
Sub-basin area
828,1km²
Upstream area
828,1km²
Discharge
17,29m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- La Salle476.4 km²57.6% of basin
- 351.1 km²42.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Catahoula
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
102.33 km² overlap
Catahoula Lake
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
29.66 km² overlap
Reserve Program
21.78 km² overlap
Reserve Program
6.12 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Catahoula, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.90 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
868 distinct species · 68 040 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Hemphill Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.7%, 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°
18,4°C
Annual rain
1 472mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
659mm/an
PET
1 434mm
AET
1 097mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
43cm
Forest
61%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)