HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080414650
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 : Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine
Sub-basin area
123,2km²
Upstream area
10 254,6km²
Discharge
39,25m³/s
Mean elev.
307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lac qui Parle River2481 km²
- Bassin de Minnesota River443 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.3 km²59.4% of basin
- Chippewa36.7 km²29.7% of basin
- 13.4 km²10.9% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Swift County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
3.11 km² overlap
Easement
2.67 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
1.55 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.59 km² overlap
Easement
0.27 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.25 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.13 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.04 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
650 distinct species · 4 599 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 140 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
6,4°C
Annual rain
608mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
158mm/an
PET
941mm
AET
520mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
66cm
Forest
13%
Crops
81%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)