HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080354090
Bassin de Missouri 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 : Cascade, Lewis and Clark, Meagher, Powell
Sub-basin area
2 145,7km²
Upstream area
45 311,7km²
Discharge
179,85m³/s
Mean elev.
1 517m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Missouri River3668 km²
- Bassin de Prickly Pear Creek1641 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2064.6 km²96.0% of basin
- 82.7 km²3.8% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.2% of basin
- Powell0.1 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Gates Of The Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
115.18 km² overlap
Sleeping Giant
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
26.44 km² overlap
Sheep Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
15.97 km² overlap
Beartooth
IUCN VEnvironmental System
11.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 149 distinct species · 63 274 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 Missouri River : 23 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
5,2°C
Annual rain
399mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
107mm/an
PET
906mm
AET
349mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
802cm
Forest
76%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)