HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080421400
Bassin de Sand 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 3 administrative regions : Le Sueur, Rice, Scott
Sub-basin area
688,5km²
Upstream area
688,7km²
Discharge
4,78m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Scott370.5 km²53.7% of basin
- 177.3 km²25.7% of basin
- Rice142.3 km²20.6% of basin
26 intersecting protected areas
Bradshaw Lake
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.98 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
1.05 km² overlap
Rice County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.85 km² overlap
Minnesota Valley
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.77 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.77 km² overlap
Karnitz
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.75 km² overlap
Scott County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.72 km² overlap
Robert J. Lick
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.71 km² overlap
Easement
0.57 km² overlap
17 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.57 km² overlap
Michel Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.56 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.55 km² overlap
Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.44 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.37 km² overlap
St. Patrick's
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.35 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.29 km² overlap
Raven
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.29 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.27 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.25 km² overlap
Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Lesueur County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
0.21 km² overlap
Lake
0.16 km² overlap
Pheasants Forever
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.11 km² overlap
O'Brien
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.10 km² overlap
Lake
0.02 km² overlap
Bardel's Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 197 distinct species · 94 998 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 Sand Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, 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°
6,3°C
Annual rain
749mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
228mm/an
PET
919mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
53cm
Forest
6%
Crops
57%
Urban
3%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)