HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080494450
Bassin de River Raisin
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 : Lake Erie, Monroe
Sub-basin area
319,3km²
Upstream area
3 070,4km²
Discharge
23,65m³/s
Mean elev.
182m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Raisin1757 km²
- Bassin de Macon Creek1 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Monroe209.0 km²65.3% of basin
- 110.8 km²34.7% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
1.65 km² overlap
Detroit River International
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
1.63 km² overlap
88-14-0147
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
06-58-0064
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
04-58-0002
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mi
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
01-58-0012
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
01-58-0045
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 448 distinct species · 135 685 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 River Raisin : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
830mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
962mm
AET
696mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
3%
Crops
55%
Urban
15%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)