HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080364260
Bassin de Red River of the North
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 5 administrative regions : Cass, Clay, Otter Tail, Richland, Wilkin
Sub-basin area
1 195,8km²
Upstream area
11 033,9km²
Discharge
31,38m³/s
Mean elev.
307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Otter Tail River428 km²
- Bassin de Bois de Sioux River214 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 805.1 km²67.2% of basin
- 179.2 km²14.9% of basin
- Richland149.3 km²12.5% of basin
- Clay33.7 km²2.8% of basin
- Cass31.5 km²2.6% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
11.39 km² overlap
Manston Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
9.40 km² overlap
Wilkin County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
7.92 km² overlap
Rothsay
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
6.03 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
5.46 km² overlap
Otter Tail County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
3.50 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
1.21 km² overlap
Foxhome Prairie Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.95 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
0.82 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Easement
0.66 km² overlap
Town Hall Prairie Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.63 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.62 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.45 km² overlap
Andrea
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.44 km² overlap
Oscar
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.33 km² overlap
Rothsay Prairie Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.32 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.19 km² overlap
Akron
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.17 km² overlap
Marginal Conservation
IUCN VReserve Program
0.16 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
811 distinct species · 16 614 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 Red River of the North : 24 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.5%, 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°
5,3°C
Annual rain
554mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
899mm
AET
476mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
15cm
Forest
5%
Crops
84%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)