HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080799090
Bassin de Tamiami Canal
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 : Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Monroe
Sub-basin area
2 945,9km²
Upstream area
2 946,6km²
Discharge
35,25m³/s
Mean elev.
6m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2124.5 km²72.3% of basin
- 375.2 km²12.8% of basin
- Monroe263.7 km²9.0% of basin
- 176.7 km²6.0% of basin
20 intersecting protected areas
Everglades
IUCN IINational Park
776.83 km² overlap
Everglades
IUCN VSpecially Protected Area (Cartagena Convention)
775.97 km² overlap
Everglades National Park
IUCN VMarine Protected Area
775.95 km² overlap
Everglades National Park
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
508.93 km² overlap
Everglades National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
507.10 km² overlap
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
IUCN IbWilderness Area
472.17 km² overlap
Trail Glades Range
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
2.74 km² overlap
Tropical
IUCN Not AssignedPark
1.15 km² overlap
Kendall Indian Hammocks
IUCN Not AssignedPark
0.49 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Tree Island
IUCN Not AssignedPark
0.49 km² overlap
Tamiami Pineland Complex Addition
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
0.37 km² overlap
Camp Matecumbe
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
0.31 km² overlap
Nixon Smiley Pineland
IUCN VPreserve
0.25 km² overlap
A. D. "Doug" Barnes
IUCN Not AssignedPark
0.24 km² overlap
Big and Little George Hammocks
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
0.08 km² overlap
Trinity Pineland
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
0.04 km² overlap
Sanctuary
0.02 km² overlap
Antonio Maceo
IUCN VPark
0.01 km² overlap
Kendalwood
IUCN Not AssignedPark
0.01 km² overlap
Zoo Miami
IUCN Not AssignedCounty Managed Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 150 distinct species · 905 626 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Tamiami Canal : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 391mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
449mm/an
PET
1 496mm
AET
1 152mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
3cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
10%
Protected
56%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)