HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080747590
Bassin de Thompson 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 5 administrative regions : East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, West Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, Wilkinson
Sub-basin area
719km²
Upstream area
719km²
Discharge
14,92m³/s
Mean elev.
74m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 286.3 km²39.8% of basin
- 227.6 km²31.7% of basin
- Wilkinson196.5 km²27.4% of basin
- 7.9 km²1.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Hammer Creek Woods
IUCN VEasement
1.02 km² overlap
Hammer Creek Woods Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 680 distinct species · 34 585 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 Thompson Creek : 32 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, 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 574mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
654mm/an
PET
1 430mm
AET
1 174mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
67cm
Forest
84%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)