HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080520210
Bassin de Mississippi 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 : Des Moines, Henderson
Sub-basin area
202,7km²
Upstream area
295 052,3km²
Discharge
2 196,78m³/s
Mean elev.
186m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Henderson Creek1629 km²
- Bassin de Pope Creek730 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Des MoinesIowa · United States133.0 km²65.5% of basin
- 70.0 km²34.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Mississippi River
IUCN VConservation Area
2.75 km² overlap
Ms Rv Pools 11-22
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.73 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
0.36 km² overlap
Malchow Indian Mounds
IUCN VState Preserve
0.03 km² overlap
Allen Green
IUCN VRefuge
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
647 distinct species · 8 259 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 Mississippi River : 25 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
10,3°C
Annual rain
899mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
1 052mm
AET
760mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
74cm
Forest
15%
Crops
58%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)