HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080359190
Bassin de Sixmile Creek
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 : Baraga, Lake Superior
Sub-basin area
491,2km²
Upstream area
491,2km²
Discharge
11,8m³/s
Mean elev.
276m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 362.7 km²73.7% of basin
- 129.7 km²26.3% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Baraga State Forest Area
IUCN VState Forest
21.44 km² overlap
Baraga Plains
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
9.28 km² overlap
State
IUCN VForest
5.42 km² overlap
Six Mile Creek
IUCN VPreserve
0.78 km² overlap
Land
IUCN VForest Management
0.16 km² overlap
89-01-0076
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
98-03-0182
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 621 distinct species · 54 064 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Sixmile Creek : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.3%, 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°
4,7°C
Annual rain
800mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
781mm/an
PET
837mm
AET
620mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
69cm
Forest
46%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)