HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080303750
Bassin de Milk 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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Division No. 2, Toole
Sub-basin area
556,8km²
Upstream area
556,8km²
Discharge
0,45m³/s
Mean elev.
1 069m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 473.3 km²84.7% of basin
- 85.2 km²15.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Toole County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
9.30 km² overlap
Provincial Park
1.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 016 distinct species · 23 121 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Milk River : 24 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.9%, 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
321mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
909mm
AET
285mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
420cm
Forest
0%
Crops
66%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)