HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080740680
Bassin de Piney 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 4 administrative regions : Houston, Polk, Trinity, Tyler
Sub-basin area
1 245,4km²
Upstream area
1 245,4km²
Discharge
12,92m³/s
Mean elev.
91m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Polk606.0 km²48.7% of basin
- 358.9 km²28.8% of basin
- 197.8 km²15.9% of basin
- Houston81.6 km²6.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
862 distinct species · 3 422 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 52 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 Piney Creek : 40 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, 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°
18,8°C
Annual rain
1 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
334mm/an
PET
1 483mm
AET
999mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
64cm
Forest
99%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)