HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080514260
Bassin de Iroquois 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 : Iroquois, Kankakee
Sub-basin area
98,1km²
Upstream area
5 725,7km²
Discharge
70,11m³/s
Mean elev.
194m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Iroquois River888 km²
- Bassin de Beaver Creek491 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.9 km²73.2% of basin
- 26.3 km²26.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Iroquois Woods
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.19 km² overlap
Gooseberry Island
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.06 km² overlap
Preserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
921 distinct species · 7 732 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Iroquois River : 38 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 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
954mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
393mm/an
PET
1 032mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
17cm
Forest
18%
Crops
87%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)