HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080415380
Bassin de Turtle Creek
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 : Beadle, Spink
Sub-basin area
266,8km²
Upstream area
3 888,9km²
Discharge
6,24m³/s
Mean elev.
398m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Turtle Creek705 km²
- Bassin de Turtle Creek80 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 256.0 km²95.7% of basin
- 11.4 km²4.3% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Spink County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
19.40 km² overlap
Twin Lakes + Diversion
IUCN VLake
3.58 km² overlap
Spink County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
2.05 km² overlap
Beadle County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
1.98 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
281 distinct species · 1 217 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Turtle Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
6,7°C
Annual rain
488mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 004mm
AET
421mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
24cm
Forest
5%
Crops
71%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)