HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080434820
Bassin de Mississippi 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 : Buffalo, Wabasha
Sub-basin area
103km²
Upstream area
151 938km²
Discharge
957,77m³/s
Mean elev.
260m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Buffalo River1458 km²
- Bassin de Zumbro River315 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Buffalo81.2 km²78.7% of basin
- 21.9 km²21.3% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
31.94 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
3.38 km² overlap
Weaver Dunes Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.45 km² overlap
Natural Area
1.79 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.81 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
0.52 km² overlap
Refuge
0.41 km² overlap
Mc Carthy Lake
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.07 km² overlap
Whitman Dam
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 098 distinct species · 15 014 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Mississippi River : 31 espèces reliées par 113 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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
823mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
268mm/an
PET
943mm
AET
696mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
169cm
Forest
51%
Crops
48%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)