HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080329060
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 1 administrative regions : Valley
Sub-basin area
286,8km²
Upstream area
56 373,8km²
Discharge
27,5m³/s
Mean elev.
668m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Willow Creek1419 km²
- Bassin de Milk River40 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Valley287.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
216 distinct species · 1 811 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
6,2°C
Annual rain
292mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
956mm
AET
259mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
252cm
Forest
9%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)