HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080754910
Bassin de Bayou Nezpique
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 : Acadia, Allen, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis
Sub-basin area
627,1km²
Upstream area
1 788,1km²
Discharge
38,6m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bayou Nezpique861 km²
- Bassin de Bayou Nezpique300 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Allen225.4 km²36.0% of basin
- 202.2 km²32.3% of basin
- 118.0 km²18.8% of basin
- 80.9 km²12.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
816 distinct species · 6 930 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 Bayou Nezpique : 31 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
1 542mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
718mm/an
PET
1 418mm
AET
1 176mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
15cm
Forest
27%
Crops
44%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)