HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080505770
Bassin de Des Plaines 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 9 administrative regions : Cook, Dupage, Grundy, Kane, Kendall +4
Sub-basin area
3 824,4km²
Upstream area
3 824,5km²
Discharge
36,87m³/s
Mean elev.
214m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1054.6 km²27.5% of basin
- Cook1006.2 km²26.3% of basin
- 827.3 km²21.6% of basin
- Lake564.1 km²14.7% of basin
- 313.5 km²8.2% of basin
- 28.9 km²0.8% of basin
- 16.4 km²0.4% of basin
- 12.4 km²0.3% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Grundy6.8 km² · 0.2%
30 intersecting protected areas
Plank Road Meadow Boat Launch
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserve
127.10 km² overlap
Springbrook Prairie
IUCN VForest Reserve
7.13 km² overlap
Blackwell 23
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserve
7.07 km² overlap
Hickory Creek Barrens
IUCN Not AssignedNature Preserve
6.22 km² overlap
Greene Valley
IUCN VForest Preserve
5.93 km² overlap
Morton Arboretum
IUCN VArboretum
5.84 km² overlap
Pratts Wayne Woods
IUCN VForest Reserve
5.32 km² overlap
South Greenbelt
IUCN VGreenbelt
5.00 km² overlap
Independence Grove
IUCN VForest Preserve
4.53 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Wildlife Area
4.48 km² overlap
Deer Grove West
IUCN VGrove
4.37 km² overlap
Pine Dunes
IUCN VForest Preserve
3.49 km² overlap
Paul Douglas
IUCN VPreserve
3.33 km² overlap
Sedge Meadow
IUCN VForest Preserve
3.21 km² overlap
Herrick Lake
IUCN VForest Preserve
3.13 km² overlap
Hawk Hollow 2
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserve
3.02 km² overlap
Captain Daniel Wright Woods
IUCN Not AssignedForest Preserve
2.98 km² overlap
West Branch
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.89 km² overlap
Hadley Valley
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
2.89 km² overlap
Prairie Bluff Preserve 1
IUCN VPreserve
2.74 km² overlap
Reserve
2.73 km² overlap
Fourth Lake
IUCN Not AssignedForest Preserve
2.52 km² overlap
Bartel Grassland
IUCN VLand And Water Reserve
2.51 km² overlap
Messenger Marsh
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
2.47 km² overlap
Fermilab
IUCN VConservation Area
2.22 km² overlap
Edward L. Ryerson
IUCN VConservation Area
2.20 km² overlap
Cap Sauers Holdings
IUCN VNature Preserve
2.04 km² overlap
Almond Marsh
IUCN VForest Preserve
2.03 km² overlap
Ethel's Woods
IUCN VForest Preserve
2.00 km² overlap
Mckinley Woods
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
2.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 942 distinct species · 6 803 009 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 Des Plaines River : 25 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.1%, 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
974mm
AET
761mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
56cm
Forest
16%
Crops
18%
Urban
70%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)