HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080497310
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 3 administrative regions : Clinton, Rock Island, Scott
Sub-basin area
845,3km²
Upstream area
6 620,1km²
Discharge
56,72m³/s
Mean elev.
212m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wapsipinicon River1401 km²
- Bassin de Mud Creek335 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ClintonIowa · United States585.9 km²69.2% of basin
- ScottIowa · United States260.4 km²30.8% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
17 intersecting protected areas
Lost Grove Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
6.87 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.14 km² overlap
Refuge
5.08 km² overlap
Barber Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.75 km² overlap
Goose Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.32 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
1.96 km² overlap
Ben Martinson
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.91 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
1.69 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.28 km² overlap
8 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Reserve Program
1.10 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.95 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.75 km² overlap
Mccausland
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.68 km² overlap
Wapsi
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.40 km² overlap
Princeton
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.24 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.16 km² overlap
Grand Mound
IUCN VConservation Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 157 distinct species · 43 349 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 : 36 espèces reliées par 118 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
884mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
269mm/an
PET
982mm
AET
746mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
63cm
Forest
8%
Crops
78%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)