HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080420470
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 : Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Yellow Medicine
Sub-basin area
1 189,4km²
Upstream area
16 801,6km²
Discharge
74,25m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chippewa River677 km²
- Bassin de Minnesota River123 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Chippewa570.7 km²47.9% of basin
- 530.2 km²44.5% of basin
- 81.5 km²6.8% of basin
- 9.7 km²0.8% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
19.65 km² overlap
Grace Marshes
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.43 km² overlap
Miller Richter
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.81 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
1.67 km² overlap
Flinks Slough
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.45 km² overlap
Other - Perpetual
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.43 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.34 km² overlap
Tyro
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.22 km² overlap
Sween
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.19 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
National Wildlife Refuge
1.11 km² overlap
Stoney Run
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.08 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.98 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.95 km² overlap
Spartan
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.93 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.92 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.86 km² overlap
Stokke
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.60 km² overlap
Wild Wings
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.60 km² overlap
Easement
0.59 km² overlap
Christopherson
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.58 km² overlap
Numo
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.57 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.53 km² overlap
Easement
0.51 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.49 km² overlap
Byholt Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.47 km² overlap
Roy Lenzen
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.43 km² overlap
Boike
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.42 km² overlap
Church
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.37 km² overlap
Lisbon
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.32 km² overlap
Clawson
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 135 distinct species · 18 791 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 Minnesota River : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
599mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
936mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
28cm
Forest
6%
Crops
85%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)