HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080337960
Bassin de Siskiwit 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 : Keweenaw, Lake Superior
Sub-basin area
516,7km²
Upstream area
54 101,9km²
Discharge
545,86m³/s
Mean elev.
186m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salmon Trout River2385 km²
- Bassin de Swedetown Creek876 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 452.6 km²87.3% of basin
- 65.6 km²12.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
189.94 km² overlap
Isle Royale
IUCN IINational Park
172.52 km² overlap
Isle Royale
IUCN IbWilderness Area
65.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 768 distinct species · 8 025 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Siskiwit River : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.1%, 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°
3,4°C
Annual rain
768mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
634mm/an
PET
749mm
AET
566mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
9cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)