HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080785350

Bassin de Peace 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 : Desoto, Hardee, Polk

31% lakePfafstetter: 73257607

Sub-basin area

1 395,6km²

Upstream area

2 675,1km²

Discharge

23,98m³/s

Mean elev.

39m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Peace River623 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Peace Creek834 km²
Bassin de Peace River446 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Polk
Florida · United States
760.0 km²
54.5% of basin
Hardee
Florida · United States
627.3 km²
45.0% of basin
Desoto
Florida · United States
6.1 km²
0.4% of basin

26 intersecting protected areas

Crooked Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife and Environmental Area
4.36 km² overlap
Crooked Lake West
IUCN V
Lake
2.77 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Polk, FL
IUCN V
Reserve Program
2.20 km² overlap
Peace River
IUCN V
Mitigation Bank
1.96 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201615A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.13 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201612A/D201603A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.79 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201611A/D201602A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.72 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201621A/D201612A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.61 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201552A/D201512A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.52 km² overlap

17 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201622A/D201613A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.52 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201623A/D201614A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201547P/D201511A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201620A/D2016111
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.43 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201618A/D201609A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.41 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201619A/D201610A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.40 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201553A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.39 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201616A/D201607A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.38 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201559A/D201519A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.30 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201554A/D201514A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.30 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201558A/D201518A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.26 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201555A/D201515A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201557A/D201517A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.22 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201556A/D201516A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.20 km² overlap
Peace River Hammock
IUCN Not Assigned
County Managed Area
0.17 km² overlap
Laurent/Peace River
IUCN Not Assigned
County Managed Area
0.09 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Polk, FL
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.07 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 757 distinct species · 106 399 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 43 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Peace River : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.093

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

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 280mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,20

Runoff

372mm/an

PET

1 593mm

AET

1 083mm

Mean slope

0,4°

Water table

37cm

Forest

17%

Crops

23%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)