HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080353800
Bassin de Yellowstone 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 : Dawson, McCone, Prairie, Wibaux
Sub-basin area
1 844km²
Upstream area
171 884,8km²
Discharge
450,63m³/s
Mean elev.
795m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Yellowstone River1050 km²
- Bassin de Yellowstone River872 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dawson1446.3 km²78.2% of basin
- 286.2 km²15.5% of basin
- 96.5 km²5.2% of basin
- 20.0 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Local Government
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
830 distinct species · 9 682 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Yellowstone River : 22 espèces reliées par 118 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 22.3%, 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°
6,3°C
Annual rain
347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
61mm/an
PET
1 001mm
AET
303mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
355cm
Forest
2%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)