HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080791620
Bassin de Caloosahatchee 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 : Charlotte, Glades, Hendry, Lee
Sub-basin area
435,7km²
Upstream area
436km²
Discharge
4,94m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 306.0 km²70.4% of basin
- 105.9 km²24.4% of basin
- 17.1 km²3.9% of basin
- Lee5.9 km²1.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Moya
IUCN VPreserve
0.48 km² overlap
Floraglades
IUCN VPreserve
0.28 km² overlap
Sanctuary
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
805 distinct species · 9 644 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Caloosahatchee River : 26 espèces reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 288mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
357mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
1 090mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
20%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)