HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080473370

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 5 administrative regions : Clay, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas

4% lakePfafstetter: 74284901

Sub-basin area

1 770km²

Upstream area

6 152,8km²

Discharge

33,01m³/s

Mean elev.

367m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de North Branch Lizard Creek2314 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Des Moines River1343 km²
Bassin de Jack Creek273 km²

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Palo Alto
Iowa · United States
1118.1 km²
63.1% of basin
Humboldt
Iowa · United States
351.0 km²
19.8% of basin
Pocahontas
Iowa · United States
282.7 km²
15.9% of basin
Kossuth
Iowa · United States
14.4 km²
0.8% of basin
Clay
Iowa · United States
6.9 km²
0.4% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program (EWetlands Reserve Program (WRP)), Palo Alto, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
14.33 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Palo Alto, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
7.17 km² overlap
West Fork
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
6.49 km² overlap
Watson
IUCN V
Heritage Area
1.47 km² overlap
Schlensig
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
1.05 km² overlap
Prairie Gold
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.98 km² overlap
Whitetail Flats
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.96 km² overlap
West Fork
IUCN V
Wetlands
0.93 km² overlap
Struhers
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.91 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Pocahontas, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.72 km² overlap
Fallow Marsh
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.72 km² overlap
Five Island Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.70 km² overlap
Miller's
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.67 km² overlap
Burns Prairie
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.65 km² overlap
Telford's Prairie
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.63 km² overlap
Hauschen
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.59 km² overlap
Bradgate
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.51 km² overlap
Martin
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.37 km² overlap
Fallow Marsh
IUCN V
Environmental System
0.35 km² overlap
Bluestem Meadow
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.32 km² overlap
West Bend
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.30 km² overlap
Emergency Watershed Protection Program - Floodplain Easement (EWPP-FPE), Pocahontas, IA
IUCN V
Watershed Protection
0.28 km² overlap
Rutland Marsh
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.28 km² overlap
Rogers
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.23 km² overlap
Stearn's Woods
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.22 km² overlap
Pilot Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.21 km² overlap
Ottosen Potholes
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.21 km² overlap
Larson Prairie
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.13 km² overlap
Hams
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.11 km² overlap
Silver Lake (Palo Alto)
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.08 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

766 distinct species · 6 556 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Des Moines River : 24 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.156

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

7,9°C

Annual rain

771mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,22

Runoff

184mm/an

PET

985mm

AET

655mm

Mean slope

0,4°

Water table

32cm

Forest

Crops

85%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)