HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080400090
Bassin de Chippewa 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 : Rusk, Sawyer
Sub-basin area
437,6km²
Upstream area
3 547,3km²
Discharge
40,52m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Brunet River277 km²
- Bassin de Chippewa River123 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Rusk302.5 km²69.0% of basin
- 136.1 km²31.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Forster
IUCN Not AssignedWildlife Sanctuary
0.40 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Wi
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.07 km² overlap
Rem-Maple Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Rem-Weirgor River
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
531 distinct species · 17 202 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Chippewa River : 26 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
5,0°C
Annual rain
833mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
308mm/an
PET
905mm
AET
698mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
66cm
Forest
96%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)