HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080505880
Bassin de Kankakee 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 : Grundy, Will
Sub-basin area
256,5km²
Upstream area
13 647km²
Discharge
175,9m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kankakee River1158 km²
- Bassin de Kankakee River363 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 218.7 km²85.2% of basin
- 38.1 km²14.8% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Area
13.85 km² overlap
Goose Lake Prairie
IUCN VState Natural Area
5.67 km² overlap
Prairie Creek
IUCN VPreserve
0.48 km² overlap
Jackson Creek Preserve 3
IUCN VPreserve
0.08 km² overlap
Hitts Siding Prairie
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.03 km² overlap
Cemetery
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 472 distinct species · 334 817 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Kankakee River : 32 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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
936mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 021mm
AET
783mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
27cm
Forest
22%
Crops
62%
Urban
1%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)