HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080508090
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 4 administrative regions : Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Will
Sub-basin area
1 158,2km²
Upstream area
13 027,5km²
Discharge
167,76m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kankakee River452 km²
- Bassin de Iroquois River98 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 841.6 km²72.6% of basin
- 294.2 km²25.4% of basin
- 17.2 km²1.5% of basin
- 6.7 km²0.6% of basin
23 intersecting protected areas
Kankakee River
IUCN Not AssignedNature Preserve
14.85 km² overlap
Preserve
2.12 km² overlap
Wilmington Shrub Prairie
IUCN VState Natural Area
1.58 km² overlap
Preserve
1.05 km² overlap
Sand Ridge Savanna
IUCN VNature Preserve
1.02 km² overlap
Monee
IUCN Not AssignedReservoir
1.02 km² overlap
Hitts Siding Prairie
IUCN VState Natural Area
1.02 km² overlap
Raccoon Grove
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.90 km² overlap
Evans-Judge Preserve 1
IUCN VPreserve
0.72 km² overlap
14 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Nature Preserve
0.47 km² overlap
Waldron Arboretum
IUCN VArboretum
0.36 km² overlap
Gar Creek Trail and Prairie Restor
IUCN Not AssignedTrail
0.32 km² overlap
Conservation Area
0.27 km² overlap
Preserve
0.23 km² overlap
SRP Sand Ridge Savanna
IUCN VPreserve
0.20 km² overlap
Hickory Creek Preserve 6
IUCN VPreserve
0.18 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
0.12 km² overlap
KSP Kankakee Sands
IUCN VPreserve
0.12 km² overlap
Kankakee River
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.09 km² overlap
Raccoon Grove
IUCN VGrove
0.06 km² overlap
Conservation Area
0.01 km² overlap
Peotone Railroad Prairie
IUCN VNatural Area
0.01 km² overlap
Conservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 241 distinct species · 578 103 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 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
947mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
389mm/an
PET
1 024mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
28cm
Forest
5%
Crops
76%
Urban
7%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)