HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080791770
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 3 administrative regions : Charlotte, Hendry, Lee
Sub-basin area
314,3km²
Upstream area
16 834,8km²
Discharge
157,17m³/s
Mean elev.
10m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dog Canal251 km²
- Bassin de Caloosahatchee River19 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lee282.6 km²90.1% of basin
- 24.8 km²7.9% of basin
- 6.4 km²2.0% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Telegraph Creek
IUCN VPreserve
5.70 km² overlap
Alva Scrub
IUCN VPreserve
3.43 km² overlap
Buckingham Trails
IUCN VPreserve
2.31 km² overlap
Hickeys Creek
IUCN VMitigation Park
1.90 km² overlap
Preserve
0.98 km² overlap
West Marsh
IUCN VPreserve
0.83 km² overlap
Hickey's Creek
IUCN Not AssignedMitigation Park
0.33 km² overlap
Hickory Swamp
IUCN VPreserve
0.27 km² overlap
Preserve
0.24 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Persimmon Ridge
IUCN VPreserve
0.15 km² overlap
Columbus G. MacLeod
IUCN VPreserve
0.04 km² overlap
Orange River Parcel
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 712 distinct species · 327 964 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.4%, 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
1 318mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
365mm/an
PET
1 598mm
AET
1 115mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
8cm
Forest
20%
Crops
14%
Urban
18%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)