HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080428660
Bassin de Belle Fourche 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 : Crook, Weston
Sub-basin area
489,6km²
Upstream area
5 280km²
Discharge
10,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 305m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Belle Fourche River304 km²
- Bassin · #7080430880292 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Crook466.6 km²95.1% of basin
- 24.0 km²4.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
486 distinct species · 17 204 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Belle Fourche River : 25 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
387mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
68mm/an
PET
1 044mm
AET
336mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
354cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)