HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080774610
Bassin de Withlacoochee 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 5 administrative regions : Hernando, Lake, Pasco, Polk, Sumter
Sub-basin area
841,7km²
Upstream area
1 511,7km²
Discharge
13,22m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Withlacoochee River361 km²
- Bassin de Pony Creek309 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 394.0 km²46.9% of basin
- 153.4 km²18.3% of basin
- Sumter133.3 km²15.9% of basin
- 131.0 km²15.6% of basin
- 28.8 km²3.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
SWFWMD Green Swamp Conservation Easements
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
17.73 km² overlap
Little Gator Creek
IUCN VWildlife and Environmental Area
2.26 km² overlap
Gator Creek
IUCN VReserve
1.53 km² overlap
Preserve
1.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 390 distinct species · 145 396 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Withlacoochee River : 28 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 328mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
403mm/an
PET
1 550mm
AET
1 124mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
43cm
Forest
42%
Crops
8%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)