HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080736120
Bassin de Homochitto 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 : Adams, Franklin, Wilkinson
Sub-basin area
715,9km²
Upstream area
3 108,2km²
Discharge
60,57m³/s
Mean elev.
68m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Homochitto River579 km²
- Bassin de Homochitto River288 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Adams465.5 km²65.1% of basin
- Wilkinson237.2 km²33.2% of basin
- Franklin12.5 km²1.8% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Sandy Creek
IUCN VState Conservation Area
40.59 km² overlap
St. Catherine Creek
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
22.65 km² overlap
Us-Ms-29-5
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
17.23 km² overlap
Us-Ms-29-10
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
9.19 km² overlap
Us-Ms-58-8
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
7.22 km² overlap
US-MS-58-22 Wetlands
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
4.12 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.71 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.61 km² overlap
Us-Ms-29-11
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.08 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
National Wildlife Refuge
0.88 km² overlap
Us-Ms-58-17
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.64 km² overlap
Sa
IUCN VHandicap Area
0.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
859 distinct species · 2 732 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Homochitto River : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 117 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.4%, 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
1 537mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
630mm/an
PET
1 422mm
AET
1 134mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
103cm
Forest
88%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)