HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080476530
Bassin de North Platte 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 3 administrative regions : Converse, Niobrara, Platte
Sub-basin area
1 173,6km²
Upstream area
38 383,3km²
Discharge
88,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 538m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de North Platte River2794 km²
- Bassin de la Bonte Creek758 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 841.1 km²71.6% of basin
- Platte249.0 km²21.2% of basin
- 85.5 km²7.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
382 distinct species · 2 581 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 North Platte River : 19 espèces reliées par 132 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 22.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
7,5°C
Annual rain
335mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 087mm
AET
291mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
774cm
Forest
5%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)