HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080319730
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 : Burke, Division No. 1, Renville
Sub-basin area
1 098,3km²
Upstream area
22 632,6km²
Discharge
9,34m³/s
Mean elev.
539m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Souris River145 km²
- Bassin de Moose Mountain Creek28 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Renville666.3 km²60.5% of basin
- Division No. 1397.8 km²36.1% of basin
- Burke37.6 km²3.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Upper Souris
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
96.06 km² overlap
Wildlife Habitat Protection
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Protection
5.18 km² overlap
Renville County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
0.31 km² overlap
Glen Ewen Burial Mound
IUCN IIIProtected Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
524 distinct species · 9 649 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.3%, 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°
3,3°C
Annual rain
403mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
856mm
AET
353mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
52cm
Forest
1%
Crops
81%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)