HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080756880
Bassin de Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
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 2 administrative regions : Calcasieu, Cameron
Sub-basin area
707,7km²
Upstream area
707,7km²
Discharge
15,27m³/s
Mean elev.
5m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 453.9 km²64.2% of basin
- 253.0 km²35.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cameron Prairie
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
30.74 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 529 distinct species · 220 670 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Gulf Intracoastal Waterway : 21 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.7%, 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
1 431mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
693mm/an
PET
1 350mm
AET
1 130mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
4cm
Forest
9%
Crops
41%
Urban
8%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)