HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080434920
Bassin de South Fork Whitewater 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 : Buffalo, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona
Sub-basin area
961,4km²
Upstream area
961,4km²
Discharge
8,24m³/s
Mean elev.
333m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 390.0 km²40.5% of basin
- 335.4 km²34.8% of basin
- 236.7 km²24.6% of basin
- Buffalo1.2 km²0.1% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Whitewater
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
111.10 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
13.86 km² overlap
Mc Carthy Lake
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
12.59 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
4.14 km² overlap
Easement
0.96 km² overlap
Weaver Dunes Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.91 km² overlap
Other - Perpetual
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.59 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.54 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.50 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Aquatic Management Area
0.31 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.29 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.23 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.16 km² overlap
Weaver Dunes
IUCN VEasement
0.13 km² overlap
Riparian Lands
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.11 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.06 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.06 km² overlap
Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.05 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.03 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.02 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 010 distinct species · 86 324 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 South Fork Whitewater River : 30 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.5%, 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°
6,6°C
Annual rain
831mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
272mm/an
PET
934mm
AET
703mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
163cm
Forest
22%
Crops
63%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)