HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080754520
Bassin de Chipola 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 3 administrative regions : Bay, Calhoun, Jackson
Sub-basin area
821,9km²
Upstream area
2 893,8km²
Discharge
54,27m³/s
Mean elev.
45m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chipola River462 km²
- Bassin de Chipola River398 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Calhoun640.2 km²78.0% of basin
- Jackson151.0 km²18.4% of basin
- 29.9 km²3.6% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Juniper Headwaters
IUCN VPreserve
0.16 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Bay County Conservancy, Inc. 8
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.12 km² overlap
Calhoun Spigelia
IUCN VPreserve
0.07 km² overlap
Bay County Conservancy, Inc. 7
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 672 distinct species · 27 574 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Chipola River : 31 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
1 515mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
578mm/an
PET
1 498mm
AET
1 236mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
69cm
Forest
81%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)