HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080420640
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 2 administrative regions : Renville, Yellow Medicine
Sub-basin area
0,7km²
Upstream area
18 539,5km²
Discharge
83,29m³/s
Mean elev.
277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Yellow Medicine River1737 km²
- Bassin de Minnesota River1189 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 0.5 km²71.3% of basin
- 0.2 km²28.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
579 distinct species · 2 691 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
625mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
175mm/an
PET
941mm
AET
535mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
56cm
Forest
60%
Crops
90%
Urban
0%
Protected
53%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)