HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080759790
Bassin de Black Bayou
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 : Calcasieu, Cameron, Orange
Sub-basin area
409,6km²
Upstream area
26 054,1km²
Discharge
269,36m³/s
Mean elev.
2m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sabine River929 km²
- Bassin de Cow Bayou511 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 362.1 km²88.5% of basin
- Orange46.7 km²11.4% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Sabine
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
145.15 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
133.32 km² overlap
Us-La-109-2
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
6.48 km² overlap
Lower Neches
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
4.11 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
4.11 km² overlap
Sydney Island
IUCN VAudubon Society Preserve or Sanctuary
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
500 distinct species · 138 115 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Black Bayou : 41 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 133 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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 453mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
622mm/an
PET
1 339mm
AET
1 135mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
4cm
Forest
37%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)