HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080754090
Bassin de Amite 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 7 administrative regions : Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, Saint Helena +2
Sub-basin area
2 185,8km²
Upstream area
5 675,7km²
Discharge
124,52m³/s
Mean elev.
11m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Amite River2439 km²
- Bassin de Comite River1051 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Livingston1043.8 km²47.8% of basin
- 498.5 km²22.8% of basin
- 281.0 km²12.9% of basin
- 230.5 km²10.6% of basin
- 122.0 km²5.6% of basin
- 6.9 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Blind River
IUCN VState Wild or Scenic River
2.99 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.59 km² overlap
Frenchtown Road
IUCN VConservation Area
0.29 km² overlap
Bluebonnet Swamp
IUCN VNature Center
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 371 distinct species · 336 638 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Amite River : 26 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 593mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
741mm/an
PET
1 437mm
AET
1 217mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
10cm
Forest
72%
Crops
6%
Urban
18%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)