HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080332600
Bassin de Big Fork 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 : Itasca, Koochiching
Sub-basin area
729,3km²
Upstream area
2 792km²
Discharge
18,13m³/s
Mean elev.
408m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Big Fork River520 km²
- Bassin de Gale Brook461 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 516.7 km²70.6% of basin
- 214.8 km²29.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Natural Area
0.31 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.22 km² overlap
Lake
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
715 distinct species · 4 891 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Big Fork River : 23 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
2,7°C
Annual rain
675mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
244mm/an
PET
823mm
AET
572mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
14cm
Forest
93%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)