HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080308220
Bassin de Souris 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 across 2 countries : Bottineau, Division No. 1, Renville
Sub-basin area
393,7km²
Upstream area
393,7km²
Discharge
0,37m³/s
Mean elev.
469m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 353.4 km²89.5% of basin
- Renville21.5 km²5.4% of basin
- Division No. 120.0 km²5.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Bottineau County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
2.50 km² overlap
J. Clark Salyer
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.50 km² overlap
Renville County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
431 distinct species · 20 604 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Souris River : 19 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
3,6°C
Annual rain
406mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
862mm
AET
354mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
10cm
Forest
0%
Crops
88%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)