HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080736820
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 : Avoyelles, Catahoula, Rapides
Sub-basin area
815,1km²
Upstream area
174 962,5km²
Discharge
1 079,16m³/s
Mean elev.
28m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bayou Rigolette941 km²
- Bassin de Red River558 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 456.4 km²56.0% of basin
- 334.6 km²41.1% of basin
- 23.4 km²2.9% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
5.27 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Avoyelles, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.51 km² overlap
Grand Cote
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.09 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.08 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Rapides, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 253 distinct species · 136 784 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 : 22 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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 476mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
688mm/an
PET
1 427mm
AET
1 115mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
27cm
Forest
34%
Crops
30%
Urban
5%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)