HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080482740
Bassin de Cemetery Ravine
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 : Cook, Lake, Lake Michigan
Sub-basin area
960,4km²
Upstream area
960,4km²
Discharge
5,57m³/s
Mean elev.
176m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 921.9 km²95.8% of basin
- Lake36.3 km²3.8% of basin
- Cook3.7 km²0.4% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Fort Sheridan
IUCN VForest Preserve
1.05 km² overlap
Blair Woods
IUCN VNatural Area
0.46 km² overlap
Tangley Oaks Woods
IUCN VNatural Area
0.33 km² overlap
Fort Sheridan Bluff
IUCN VNatural Area
0.31 km² overlap
Lake Bluff Woods
IUCN VNatural Area
0.14 km² overlap
Plank Road Meadow Boat Launch
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
City Of North Chicago
IUCN VOpen Space
0.08 km² overlap
Corlands
IUCN VOpen Space
0.07 km² overlap
Lake Bluff Park District
IUCN VWetlands
0.03 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Blodgett Bluff
IUCN VNatural Area
0.02 km² overlap
Ravinia Bluff
IUCN VNatural Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 637 distinct species · 202 024 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 Cemetery Ravine : 21 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
889mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
899mm
AET
719mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
8cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)