HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080507980
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 : Kankakee, Will
Sub-basin area
363,1km²
Upstream area
363,1km²
Discharge
4,4m³/s
Mean elev.
204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 329.6 km²90.6% of basin
- 34.0 km²9.4% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Forked Creek Preserve 8
IUCN VPreserve
2.68 km² overlap
Hickory Creek Preserve 6
IUCN VPreserve
1.81 km² overlap
John Wesley Preserve 2
IUCN VPreserve
1.09 km² overlap
Preserve
0.88 km² overlap
Donohue Grove Preserve 5
IUCN VPreserve
0.63 km² overlap
Forsythe Woods County
IUCN VForest Preserve
0.46 km² overlap
Wayne Lehnert
IUCN VPreserve
0.32 km² overlap
Laughton Preserve 2
IUCN VPreserve
0.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 628 distinct species · 40 099 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
948mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 014mm
AET
787mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
22cm
Forest
1%
Crops
68%
Urban
2%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)