HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080349590
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 2 administrative regions : Cass, Itasca
Sub-basin area
535,7km²
Upstream area
4 012,9km²
Discharge
21,79m³/s
Mean elev.
401m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Third River396 km²
- Bassin de Mississippi River305 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.3 km²54.2% of basin
- Cass246.0 km²45.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bowstring Deer Yard
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
809 distinct species · 12 084 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.0%, 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°
3,4°C
Annual rain
672mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
824mm
AET
570mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
23cm
Forest
70%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)