HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080359060
Bassin de Sturgeon 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 6 administrative regions : Baraga, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Lake Superior +1
Sub-basin area
2 490,1km²
Upstream area
2 490,4km²
Discharge
57,82m³/s
Mean elev.
341m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1383.3 km²55.4% of basin
- 860.9 km²34.5% of basin
- 106.7 km²4.3% of basin
- 80.2 km²3.2% of basin
- 35.1 km²1.4% of basin
- 30.5 km²1.2% of basin
23 intersecting protected areas
Baraga State Forest Area
IUCN VState Forest
233.79 km² overlap
Sturgeon River Gorge
IUCN IbWilderness
67.68 km² overlap
Baraga Plains
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
44.79 km² overlap
Scenic River
37.96 km² overlap
Sturgeon River Sloughs
IUCN VState Wildlife Area
31.52 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
29.11 km² overlap
State
IUCN VForest
5.57 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.74 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.41 km² overlap
14 more protected areassorted by overlap area
MNRTF Parcel
IUCN VConservation Area
2.74 km² overlap
00-00-0035
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.17 km² overlap
Pilgrim Community
IUCN VForest
1.08 km² overlap
Pike Lake Flooding
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.38 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mi
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.27 km² overlap
River Bend
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.17 km² overlap
Rockafellow
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.13 km² overlap
03-31-0011
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
92-01-0098
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
04-31-0007
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
Central Houghton Green
IUCN VGreenspace
0.01 km² overlap
Isle Royale
IUCN IINational Park
0.01 km² overlap
Paavola
IUCN VWetlands Preserve
0.01 km² overlap
11-31-0015
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 213 distinct species · 165 685 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Sturgeon River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.6%, 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
811mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
759mm/an
PET
825mm
AET
619mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
78cm
Forest
75%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)