HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080341400
Bassin de West Sleeping 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 : Houghton, Lake Superior, Ontonagon
Sub-basin area
817,1km²
Upstream area
49 442,1km²
Discharge
580,6m³/s
Mean elev.
197m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hollow Rock Creek871 km²
- Bassin · #70803429300 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 671.3 km²81.9% of basin
- 130.3 km²15.9% of basin
- 17.7 km²2.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Baraga State Forest Area
IUCN VState Forest
20.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
115 distinct species · 187 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 West Sleeping River : 27 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
749mm/an
PET
805mm
AET
600mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
9cm
Forest
17%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)