HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080505460
Bassin de Des Moines 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 4 administrative regions : Jasper, Marion, Polk, Warren
Sub-basin area
579,4km²
Upstream area
30 959,3km²
Discharge
188,45m³/s
Mean elev.
256m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South River1528 km²
- Bassin de Mud Creek155 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MarionIowa · United States315.5 km²54.4% of basin
- JasperIowa · United States187.1 km²32.3% of basin
- PolkIowa · United States76.2 km²13.1% of basin
- WarrenIowa · United States1.4 km²0.2% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Red Rock
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
82.88 km² overlap
Neal Smith
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
23.24 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.79 km² overlap
Vandalia
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.40 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.32 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.32 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.31 km² overlap
Roorda
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 078 distinct species · 73 931 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 Des Moines River : 30 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
924mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
1 027mm
AET
776mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
113cm
Forest
4%
Crops
63%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)