HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080460650
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 6 administrative regions : Cottonwood, Dickinson, Emmet, Jackson, Martin +1
Sub-basin area
1 342,9km²
Upstream area
4 109,2km²
Discharge
21,42m³/s
Mean elev.
423m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Okabena Creek1288 km²
- Bassin de Des Moines River222 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Jackson471.8 km²35.1% of basin
- EmmetIowa · United States404.3 km²30.1% of basin
- 306.7 km²22.8% of basin
- Palo AltoIowa · United States73.5 km²5.5% of basin
- DickinsonIowa · United States73.5 km²5.5% of basin
- Martin15.6 km²1.2% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Cottonwood County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
8.35 km² overlap
Wetland
6.34 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.84 km² overlap
State Wildlife Management Area
4.06 km² overlap
Expandere
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
3.62 km² overlap
Jackson County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
3.09 km² overlap
Anderson Prairie
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.89 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
2.41 km² overlap
Burr Oak Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.40 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Ryan Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.59 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.54 km² overlap
Easement
1.48 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.31 km² overlap
Eagle Lake (Emmet)
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.27 km² overlap
Four Mile Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.26 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.12 km² overlap
Cheever Lake
IUCN VState Preserve
1.11 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.02 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.99 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.99 km² overlap
Toe
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.98 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.93 km² overlap
Caraway
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.84 km² overlap
Anderson Prairie
IUCN VState Preserve
0.75 km² overlap
Grass Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.71 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.70 km² overlap
Christopherson Slough
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.65 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.65 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.62 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 447 distinct species · 51 626 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 27 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
719mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
165mm/an
PET
948mm
AET
612mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
93cm
Forest
2%
Crops
82%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)