HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080745390
Bassin de Mississippi 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 4 administrative regions : Concordia, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana, Wilkinson
Sub-basin area
360km²
Upstream area
3 174 406,8km²
Discharge
21 506,43m³/s
Mean elev.
34m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Buffalo River2021 km²
- Bassin de Red River431 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 252.4 km²70.2% of basin
- 88.2 km²24.5% of basin
- Wilkinson17.9 km²5.0% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Cat Island
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
5.61 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.91 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.31 km² overlap
Cat Island
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
1.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
969 distinct species · 7 106 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Mississippi River : 35 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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 540mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
679mm/an
PET
1 427mm
AET
1 159mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
73cm
Forest
82%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)