HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080786670
Bassin de Kissimmee 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 4 administrative regions : Highlands, Okeechobee, Osceola, Polk
Sub-basin area
2 197,5km²
Upstream area
5 448km²
Discharge
42,37m³/s
Mean elev.
20m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Weohyakapka Creek585 km²
- Bassin de Lake Marion Creek402 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 989.0 km²45.1% of basin
- 558.3 km²25.4% of basin
- 336.9 km²15.4% of basin
- 309.8 km²14.1% of basin
17 intersecting protected areas
Kissimmee Prairie
IUCN VPreserve State Park
166.65 km² overlap
Reserve Program
30.52 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
8.09 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
6.75 km² overlap
Reserve Program
5.20 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Osceola, FL
IUCN VConservation Easement
4.01 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
2.93 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
2.66 km² overlap
Kissimmee River 3393
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.32 km² overlap
8 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Kissimmee River 3395
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.43 km² overlap
Sumica
IUCN VLocal Recreation Area
0.42 km² overlap
Kissimmee River 3396
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.26 km² overlap
Kissimmee River 4683
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.23 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Highlands, FL
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.20 km² overlap
Kissimmee River 4731
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.14 km² overlap
Kissimmee River 4690
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.10 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 022 distinct species · 502 882 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Kissimmee River : 32 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 219mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
348mm/an
PET
1 570mm
AET
1 032mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
10cm
Forest
27%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)