HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080475860
Bassin de Pecatonica 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 : Grant, Green, Iowa, Jo Daviess, Lafayette +1
Sub-basin area
1 351,8km²
Upstream area
1 351,8km²
Discharge
11,89m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lafayette862.9 km²63.7% of basin
- Iowa435.0 km²32.1% of basin
- 29.5 km²2.2% of basin
- 24.7 km²1.8% of basin
- Grant1.9 km²0.1% of basin
- Green0.2 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Rem-Otter Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.67 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.42 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.17 km² overlap
Rem-Lovetts Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.10 km² overlap
Rem-Rock Branch
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Stream Bank Easement Program
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 497 distinct species · 65 631 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Pecatonica River : 27 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
280mm/an
PET
953mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
140cm
Forest
2%
Crops
62%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)