HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080780000
Bassin de Lake Marion Creek
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 : Osceola, Polk
Sub-basin area
401,5km²
Upstream area
2 664,5km²
Discharge
23,91m³/s
Mean elev.
27m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Reedy Creek788 km²
- Bassin de Reedy Creek1 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 293.7 km²73.3% of basin
- 107.2 km²26.7% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Disney
IUCN VWilderness Preserve
23.27 km² overlap
Preserve State Park
7.07 km² overlap
Lake Kissimmee
IUCN VState Park
3.28 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.50 km² overlap
Preserve
0.89 km² overlap
Lake Wales Ridge
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.58 km² overlap
Bullfrog Bay
IUCN VMitigation Bank
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 847 distinct species · 62 599 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Lake Marion Creek : 37 espèces reliées par 101 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 214mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
368mm/an
PET
1 576mm
AET
1 027mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
35cm
Forest
29%
Crops
8%
Urban
10%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)