HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080475160
Bassin de Cedar 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 2 administrative regions : Black Hawk, Bremer
Sub-basin area
61,2km²
Upstream area
4 380,3km²
Discharge
42,86m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cedar River350 km²
- Bassin de Quarter Section Run222 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BremerIowa · United States35.1 km²57.2% of basin
- Black HawkIowa · United States26.2 km²42.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Paradise
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
377 distinct species · 4 565 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 Cedar River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
867mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
271mm/an
PET
971mm
AET
733mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
42cm
Forest
7%
Crops
77%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)