HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080345950
Bassin de Mississippi 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 : Beltrami, Cass, Itasca
Sub-basin area
305km²
Upstream area
3 081,1km²
Discharge
15,82m³/s
Mean elev.
401m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Turtle River721 km²
- Bassin de Mississippi River681 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.1 km²41.6% of basin
- Cass106.8 km²34.9% of basin
- 72.0 km²23.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sugar Lake
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.55 km² overlap
Morph Meadows
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.22 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
555 distinct species · 2 886 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Mississippi River : 29 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
3,5°C
Annual rain
661mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
165mm/an
PET
825mm
AET
560mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
23cm
Forest
64%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)