HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080747580
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 : East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana
Sub-basin area
196,6km²
Upstream area
3 175 450,3km²
Discharge
21 498,7m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Bayou Sara464 km²
- Bassin de Mississippi River209 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.9 km²72.8% of basin
- 51.7 km²26.3% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 023 distinct species · 11 871 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, 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 552mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
668mm/an
PET
1 424mm
AET
1 172mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
48cm
Forest
75%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)