HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080747780
Bassin de Bayou Boeuf
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 : Avoyelles, Evangeline, Rapides, Saint Landry
Sub-basin area
930,2km²
Upstream area
930,2km²
Discharge
20,24m³/s
Mean elev.
34m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 713.5 km²76.8% of basin
- 111.4 km²12.0% of basin
- 86.3 km²9.3% of basin
- 18.1 km²1.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
10.08 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.41 km² overlap
Bayou Beouf
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
2.78 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), St. Landry, LA
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 580 distinct species · 75 646 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Bayou Boeuf : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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 498mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
686mm/an
PET
1 429mm
AET
1 131mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
33cm
Forest
50%
Crops
29%
Urban
3%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)