HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080757750
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 : Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty
Sub-basin area
248,6km²
Upstream area
3 345,3km²
Discharge
63,47m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chipola River822 km²
- Bassin de Cypress Creek203 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 219.0 km²88.2% of basin
- Calhoun29.3 km²11.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
25.97 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
25.87 km² overlap
Apalachicola River
IUCN VWildlife and Environmental Area
8.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 146 distinct species · 6 461 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 Chipola River : 29 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 594mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
573mm/an
PET
1 459mm
AET
1 273mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
23cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)