HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080432540

Bassin de Cottonwood 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 : Brown, Redwood

10% lakePfafstetter: 74288401

Sub-basin area

322,5km²

Upstream area

3 141,4km²

Discharge

17,47m³/s

Mean elev.

301m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Little Cottonwood River1560 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Sleepy Eye Creek767 km²
Bassin de Cottonwood River354 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Brown
Minnesota · United States
320.7 km²
99.3% of basin
Redwood
Minnesota · United States
2.4 km²
0.7% of basin

12 intersecting protected areas

Martin County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
2.58 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
0.33 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
0.20 km² overlap
Rosenau-Lambrecht
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.19 km² overlap
Verona
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.18 km² overlap
Reinvest in Minnesota Reserve Partnership
IUCN V
Easement
0.16 km² overlap
Reinvest in Minnesota Wetlands
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.13 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN V
Wetland Preserve
0.11 km² overlap
Romberg
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.08 km² overlap

3 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Cottonwood River State Aquatic Management Area (Brown)
IUCN V
Aquatic Management Area
0.07 km² overlap
Klug
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Flowage
IUCN V
Easement
0.00 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

633 distinct species · 12 565 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 34 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cottonwood River : 24 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.128

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

6,9°C

Annual rain

702mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,25

Runoff

185mm/an

PET

939mm

AET

598mm

Mean slope

0,7°

Water table

62cm

Forest

Crops

85%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)