HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080503180
Bassin de Rock 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 : Henry, Rock Island, Whiteside
Sub-basin area
553,2km²
Upstream area
24 975,9km²
Discharge
211,36m³/s
Mean elev.
189m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rock Creek560 km²
- Bassin de Big Slough Ditch68 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 245.7 km²44.3% of basin
- 227.2 km²41.0% of basin
- Henry81.1 km²14.6% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Watershed Protection
6.10 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.32 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.91 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Rock Island, IL
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.31 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.29 km² overlap
McNeal Marsh
IUCN VConservation Area
0.19 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.16 km² overlap
Pearsall Sand Prairie
IUCN VNatural Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 187 distinct species · 24 448 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Rock River : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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
904mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
273mm/an
PET
1 002mm
AET
763mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
67cm
Forest
10%
Crops
68%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)