HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080757680
Bassin de Sabine 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 4 administrative regions : Calcasieu, Cameron, Newton, Orange
Sub-basin area
929,2km²
Upstream area
25 133,5km²
Discharge
262,94m³/s
Mean elev.
11m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080753380320 km²
- Bassin de Sabine River32 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 538.8 km²58.0% of basin
- Orange277.8 km²29.9% of basin
- Newton84.6 km²9.1% of basin
- 27.0 km²2.9% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Tony Houseman
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
17.77 km² overlap
Lower Neches
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.58 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
1.42 km² overlap
LouAnn Gomez
IUCN VPreserve
0.15 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 644 distinct species · 45 987 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Sabine River : 32 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 464mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
587mm/an
PET
1 394mm
AET
1 146mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
12cm
Forest
60%
Crops
15%
Urban
4%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)