HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080490850
Bassin de Kyte 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 : De Kalb, Lee, Ogle
Sub-basin area
518,1km²
Upstream area
518,1km²
Discharge
4,79m³/s
Mean elev.
247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 330.7 km²63.7% of basin
- Lee173.4 km²33.4% of basin
- De Kalb14.9 km²2.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Area
0.48 km² overlap
Steward State
IUCN VHabitat Area
0.33 km² overlap
Pine Rock
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.04 km² overlap
Piros Prairie
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 769 distinct species · 28 702 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Kyte River : 30 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
920mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
294mm/an
PET
986mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
51cm
Forest
1%
Crops
73%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)