HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080443300
Bassin de Des Moines 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 : Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles
Sub-basin area
222,1km²
Upstream area
1 478,7km²
Discharge
7,81m³/s
Mean elev.
438m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lime Creek255 km²
- Bassin de Des Moines River181 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.1 km²42.7% of basin
- Murray64.9 km²29.2% of basin
- Jackson57.5 km²25.9% of basin
- 5.0 km²2.2% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Talcot Lake
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
21.29 km² overlap
Murray County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
1.91 km² overlap
Cottonwood County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
1.28 km² overlap
Cotton-Jack
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
1.03 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
1.02 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.58 km² overlap
Pats Pasture
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.49 km² overlap
Pope County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.33 km² overlap
Winkler
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.32 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Easement
0.20 km² overlap
Voit
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.19 km² overlap
Big Stone County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.11 km² overlap
Easement
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
589 distinct species · 14 427 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 Des Moines River : 24 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.3%, 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
690mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
161mm/an
PET
942mm
AET
587mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
51cm
Forest
4%
Crops
78%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)