HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080406330
Bassin de Minnesota 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 3 administrative regions : Big Stone, Grant, Lac qui Parle
Sub-basin area
74,3km²
Upstream area
3 018,1km²
Discharge
9,12m³/s
Mean elev.
312m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.4 km²42.1% of basin
- 28.0 km²37.6% of basin
- Grant15.1 km²20.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Big Stone
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
22.49 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.37 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
0.35 km² overlap
Lac Qui Parle County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
902 distinct species · 39 168 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Minnesota River : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, 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°
6,5°C
Annual rain
576mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
111mm/an
PET
960mm
AET
493mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
58cm
Forest
16%
Crops
70%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)