HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080421260
Bassin de Red Cedar 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 : Dunn, Pierce, Saint Croix
Sub-basin area
595,5km²
Upstream area
4 880,4km²
Discharge
43,88m³/s
Mean elev.
297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hay River1188 km²
- Bassin de Red Cedar River781 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dunn553.3 km²92.7% of basin
- 43.2 km²7.2% of basin
- Pierce0.3 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Dunnville
IUCN VWildlife Area
6.66 km² overlap
Scattered Wildlife
IUCN VWildlife Area
3.52 km² overlap
Lower Chippewa River
IUCN VState Natural Area
1.73 km² overlap
Statewide Habitat Areas
IUCN VHabitat Area
0.60 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.33 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
0.18 km² overlap
Stream Bank Easement Program
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.16 km² overlap
Lower Chippewa River
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 353 distinct species · 99 248 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Red Cedar River : 31 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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
803mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
950mm
AET
680mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
139cm
Forest
11%
Crops
39%
Urban
3%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)