HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080448250
Bassin de Battle Creek
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 : Custer, Pennington
Sub-basin area
779,3km²
Upstream area
779,3km²
Discharge
1,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Custer529.6 km²67.8% of basin
- Pennington251.2 km²32.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Custer
IUCN VState Park
112.00 km² overlap
Wildlife Preserve
91.43 km² overlap
Black Elk
IUCN IbWilderness
44.69 km² overlap
Mount Rushmore
IUCN IIINational Memorial
4.99 km² overlap
Upper Pine Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
3.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 798 distinct species · 48 092 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Battle Creek : 35 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
462mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 050mm
AET
399mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
529cm
Forest
57%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)