HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080496770
Bassin de Wapsipinicon 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 5 administrative regions : Cedar, Clinton, Jones, Linn, Scott
Sub-basin area
1 400,7km²
Upstream area
5 439,4km²
Discharge
46,93m³/s
Mean elev.
240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wapsipinicon River1109 km²
- Bassin de Buffalo Creek601 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- JonesIowa · United States513.4 km²36.6% of basin
- ClintonIowa · United States446.3 km²31.8% of basin
- CedarIowa · United States356.3 km²25.4% of basin
- ScottIowa · United States82.7 km²5.9% of basin
- LinnIowa · United States4.2 km²0.3% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Watershed Protection
4.61 km² overlap
Reserve Program
3.53 km² overlap
Muskrat Slough
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.94 km² overlap
Syracuse
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.87 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
2.72 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
1.24 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.21 km² overlap
Ringneck Marsh
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
1.07 km² overlap
Local Conservation Area
1.05 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Local Conservation Area
0.97 km² overlap
Hale
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.80 km² overlap
Local Conservation Area
0.71 km² overlap
Townsend
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.49 km² overlap
Mockridge
IUCN VWildlife Preserve
0.31 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.30 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.28 km² overlap
Townsend
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.23 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.18 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.13 km² overlap
Duke Prairie
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.08 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.06 km² overlap
Olin Access
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
887 distinct species · 16 606 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 Wapsipinicon River : 29 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
8,9°C
Annual rain
902mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
1 005mm
AET
761mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
73cm
Forest
5%
Crops
78%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)