HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080735560
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 : Grant, Natchitoches, Rapides
Sub-basin area
557,9km²
Upstream area
173 205,4km²
Discharge
1 044,77m³/s
Mean elev.
45m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cane River1736 km²
- Bassin de Red River494 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 476.3 km²85.4% of basin
- Grant71.8 km²12.9% of basin
- 9.4 km²1.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
11.73 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.88 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.96 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Rapides, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
763 distinct species · 28 483 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.0%, 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
1 426mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
582mm/an
PET
1 440mm
AET
1 102mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
44cm
Forest
55%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)