HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080498870
Bassin de Middle Loup 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 2 administrative regions : Blaine, Custer
Sub-basin area
227,4km²
Upstream area
9 874,8km²
Discharge
11,77m³/s
Mean elev.
792m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Middle Loup River298 km²
- Bassin de Rifle Creek185 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Custer151.7 km²66.6% of basin
- Blaine75.9 km²33.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
228 distinct species · 1 215 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Middle Loup River : 28 espèces reliées par 133 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.2%, 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
594mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 111mm
AET
508mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
272cm
Forest
0%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)