HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080509480

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 5 administrative regions : Jasper, LaPorte, Porter, Pulaski, Starke

9% lakePfafstetter: 74282905

Sub-basin area

752,6km²

Upstream area

3 742,4km²

Discharge

48,53m³/s

Mean elev.

213m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kankakee River863 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Robbins Ditch1691 km²
Bassin de Yellow River595 km²

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

LaPorte
Indiana · United States
335.7 km²
44.5% of basin
Starke
Indiana · United States
283.9 km²
37.7% of basin
Jasper
Indiana · United States
69.9 km²
9.3% of basin
Pulaski
Indiana · United States
41.1 km²
5.5% of basin
Porter
Indiana · United States
23.0 km²
3.1% of basin

15 intersecting protected areas

Kankakee Fish and
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
14.70 km² overlap
Jasper-Pulaski
IUCN V
Fish And Wildlife Area
2.43 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Starke, IN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
2.39 km² overlap
Winamac
IUCN V
Fish And Wildlife Area
2.31 km² overlap
Aukiki Wetland
IUCN V
Conservation Area
1.83 km² overlap
Tefft Savanna Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
1.62 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), LaPorte, IN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.33 km² overlap
Kankakee River Swampland
IUCN V
Natural Area
1.09 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Porter, IN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.07 km² overlap

6 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Starke, IN
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
0.95 km² overlap
Nipsco Savanna Site Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.91 km² overlap
Round Lake Wetland
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.56 km² overlap
Grassland Reserve Program (GRP), La Porte, IN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.16 km² overlap
Kankakee
IUCN V
Fish And Wildlife Area
0.04 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Starke, IN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.02 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 134 distinct species · 47 547 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 32 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Kankakee River : 26 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.123

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

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

972mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,05

Runoff

408mm/an

PET

1 023mm

AET

791mm

Mean slope

0,4°

Water table

18cm

Forest

32%

Crops

67%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)