HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080438690
Bassin du Sueur 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 3 administrative regions : Blue Earth, Steele, Waseca
Sub-basin area
328,5km²
Upstream area
689,3km²
Discharge
5,66m³/s
Mean elev.
336m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Sueur River205 km²
- Bassin de Boot Creek156 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 309.5 km²94.1% of basin
- 10.0 km²3.0% of basin
- 9.6 km²2.9% of basin
17 intersecting protected areas
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
5.02 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.31 km² overlap
Easement
0.56 km² overlap
Mueller
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.49 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.42 km² overlap
Senn-Rich
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.41 km² overlap
Kanne
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.31 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.25 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.23 km² overlap
8 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Willard and Lois Manthey
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.22 km² overlap
Easement
0.22 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.21 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.19 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.10 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.06 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.02 km² overlap
Flowage
IUCN VEasement
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
592 distinct species · 11 002 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 du Sueur River : 32 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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
782mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
248mm/an
PET
924mm
AET
662mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
34cm
Forest
17%
Crops
76%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)