HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080366400
Bassin de West Branch Ontonagon 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 2 administrative regions : Gogebic, Ontonagon
Sub-basin area
611,2km²
Upstream area
611,2km²
Discharge
14,26m³/s
Mean elev.
421m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 348.5 km²56.9% of basin
- 264.3 km²43.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ontonagon, Michigan
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
14.04 km² overlap
Scenic River
8.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 219 distinct species · 9 570 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 West Branch Ontonagon River : 32 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.5%, 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°
3,9°C
Annual rain
873mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
764mm/an
PET
828mm
AET
650mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
80cm
Forest
73%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)