HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080353750
Bassin de East Branch Beaver 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 4 administrative regions : Bayfield, Lake, Lake Superior
Sub-basin area
3 040,6km²
Upstream area
17 530km²
Discharge
246,97m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Iron River555 km²
- Bassin · #708035918099 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lake938.5 km²30.8% of basin
- Lake Superior813.0 km²26.7% of basin
- Lake Superior808.5 km²26.5% of basin
- 488.9 km²16.0% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
9.80 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
8.82 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
7.56 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
7.40 km² overlap
Lake
4.63 km² overlap
Cathedral Grove
IUCN VEasement
1.87 km² overlap
Statewide Habitat Areas
IUCN VHabitat Area
1.24 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.94 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.76 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Aquatic Management Area
0.50 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.25 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.19 km² overlap
Lake
0.15 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.11 km² overlap
Gaylord Nelson
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.09 km² overlap
Lost Creek Bog
IUCN VNatural Area
0.07 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.07 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.05 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.05 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.05 km² overlap
Encampment Island
IUCN VEasement
0.04 km² overlap
Corny Beach
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 081 distinct species · 157 958 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 East Branch Beaver River : 23 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
4,1°C
Annual rain
752mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
680mm/an
PET
774mm
AET
618mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
29cm
Forest
44%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)