HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080424960
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 : Lyon, Redwood, Renville, Yellow Medicine
Sub-basin area
817,8km²
Upstream area
20 556,4km²
Discharge
96,24m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hawk Creek1200 km²
- Bassin de Minnesota River1 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 371.7 km²45.4% of basin
- 249.4 km²30.4% of basin
- 187.8 km²22.9% of basin
- Lyon10.7 km²1.3% of basin
28 intersecting protected areas
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
10.50 km² overlap
Cedar Rock
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
3.84 km² overlap
Easement
3.42 km² overlap
Renville County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
3.37 km² overlap
Other - Perpetual
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.11 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
1.13 km² overlap
Cold Springs
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.04 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.85 km² overlap
Timm's Lake
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.82 km² overlap
19 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Reserve Program
0.73 km² overlap
Granite Prairie
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.71 km² overlap
Easement
0.61 km² overlap
Sacred Heart
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.57 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.57 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.49 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.47 km² overlap
Klabunde
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.46 km² overlap
Trongard
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.40 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.33 km² overlap
Dybsand
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.32 km² overlap
Easement
0.30 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.27 km² overlap
Lines
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.27 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.25 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.20 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.13 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.08 km² overlap
Delhi
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 147 distinct species · 29 449 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 62 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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
647mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
179mm/an
PET
934mm
AET
552mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
46cm
Forest
5%
Crops
93%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)