HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080453910
Bassin de Sand Slough
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 : Allamakee, Houston, Vernon
Sub-basin area
225,7km²
Upstream area
225,7km²
Discharge
1,71m³/s
Mean elev.
299m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Houston215.4 km²95.3% of basin
- AllamakeeIowa · United States10.7 km²4.7% of basin
- Vernon0.0 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
33.17 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
21.69 km² overlap
Refuge
9.47 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.54 km² overlap
Other - Perpetual
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.42 km² overlap
Easement
0.33 km² overlap
Pool Slough
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 054 distinct species · 16 148 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 Sand Slough : 32 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
7,3°C
Annual rain
817mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
923mm
AET
691mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
220cm
Forest
54%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)