HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080415980
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 4 administrative regions : Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Scott
Sub-basin area
1 156,1km²
Upstream area
43 809,3km²
Discharge
203,29m³/s
Mean elev.
272m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sand Creek689 km²
- Bassin de Bevens Creek576 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Scott379.4 km²32.7% of basin
- 319.0 km²27.5% of basin
- 287.6 km²24.8% of basin
- 172.6 km²14.9% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Minnesota Valley
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
39.02 km² overlap
Murphy-Hanrehan
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
8.19 km² overlap
Hyland Lake Park
IUCN VReserve
3.87 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.43 km² overlap
Anderson Lakes Park
IUCN VReserve
2.27 km² overlap
Murphy - Hanrehan Park
IUCN VReserve
1.60 km² overlap
Raguet
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.27 km² overlap
Natural Area
1.17 km² overlap
Carver Highlands
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.11 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Schneewind
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.01 km² overlap
Edenbrook
IUCN VConservation Area
0.95 km² overlap
Southbridge
IUCN VOpen Space
0.87 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.68 km² overlap
Wood Lake
IUCN VNature Center
0.62 km² overlap
Riley Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
0.58 km² overlap
Edenvale
IUCN VConservation Area
0.58 km² overlap
Arboretum
0.57 km² overlap
Lower Purgatory Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
0.55 km² overlap
Patrick Eagan
IUCN VPark
0.53 km² overlap
Richard T. Anderson
IUCN VConservation Area
0.49 km² overlap
Chanhassen
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.45 km² overlap
Nine Mile Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
0.40 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.35 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.30 km² overlap
James A. Brown
IUCN VConservation Area
0.29 km² overlap
Dean Lakes
IUCN VOpen Space
0.29 km² overlap
Rice Marsh Lake
IUCN VPreserve
0.28 km² overlap
Prairie Bluff
IUCN VConservation Area
0.26 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.26 km² overlap
Cardinal Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
0.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 426 distinct species · 2 773 785 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 30 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
746mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
219mm/an
PET
919mm
AET
632mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
88cm
Forest
16%
Crops
31%
Urban
46%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)