HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080435870
Bassin de Rat 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 : Outagamie, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago
Sub-basin area
529,6km²
Upstream area
8 592,1km²
Discharge
82,89m³/s
Mean elev.
246m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Waupaca River801 km²
- Bassin de Potters Creek107 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 210.4 km²39.7% of basin
- Winnebago153.8 km²29.0% of basin
- 100.7 km²19.0% of basin
- 65.7 km²12.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Rat River
IUCN VWildlife Area
18.57 km² overlap
Statewide Habitat Areas
IUCN VHabitat Area
1.43 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.71 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.18 km² overlap
Statewide
IUCN VWildlife Habitat
0.14 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 088 distinct species · 62 691 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Rat River : 23 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.5%, 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°
6,9°C
Annual rain
790mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
302mm/an
PET
921mm
AET
667mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
54cm
Forest
39%
Crops
39%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)