HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080346130
Bassin de Saint Joe 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 : Benewah, Kootenai
Sub-basin area
515,7km²
Upstream area
4 850,7km²
Discharge
84,73m³/s
Mean elev.
883m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de St. Maries River1261 km²
- Bassin de Saint Joe River569 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BenewahIdaho · United States400.1 km²77.4% of basin
- KootenaiIdaho · United States117.1 km²22.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
4.71 km² overlap
Coeur D'Alene River
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 092 distinct species · 43 406 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 Saint Joe River : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.2%, 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°
7,2°C
Annual rain
731mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
381mm/an
PET
941mm
AET
556mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
434cm
Forest
80%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)