HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080732390
Bassin de Flagon Bayou
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 : Grant, La Salle, Rapides
Sub-basin area
1 107,1km²
Upstream area
6 615,7km²
Discharge
120,97m³/s
Mean elev.
46m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bear Creek332 km²
- Bassin de Bayou Funny Louis324 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Grant560.8 km²50.7% of basin
- La Salle308.1 km²27.8% of basin
- 237.3 km²21.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Us-La-42-10
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
12.92 km² overlap
Catahoula Lake
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
7.87 km² overlap
Little River
IUCN VState Wild or Scenic River
5.32 km² overlap
Big Creek
IUCN VState Wild or Scenic River
0.07 km² overlap
Trout Creek
IUCN VState Wild or Scenic River
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 755 distinct species · 23 415 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Flagon Bayou : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
1 446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
641mm/an
PET
1 431mm
AET
1 096mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
53cm
Forest
94%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)