HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080521790

Bassin de Platte 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 : Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney

Pfafstetter: 74294553

Sub-basin area

390,3km²

Upstream area

149 780,8km²

Discharge

113,06m³/s

Mean elev.

641m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de South Channel Platte River400 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Platte River499 km²
Bassin de North Dry Creek301 km²

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Buffalo
Nebraska · United States
194.0 km²
49.6% of basin
Kearney
Nebraska · United States
153.6 km²
39.3% of basin
Hall
Nebraska · United States
43.2 km²
11.1% of basin
Adams
Nebraska · United States
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin

15 intersecting protected areas

Bassway Strip
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
3.71 km² overlap
Central Platte River
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
1.70 km² overlap
Central Platte River Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
1.39 km² overlap
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust
IUCN V
Conservation Area
1.23 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Buffalo, NE
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.67 km² overlap
Kearney County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
0.64 km² overlap
Martins Reach
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.49 km² overlap
Nebraska Audubon Society
IUCN V
National Conservation Area
0.45 km² overlap
Us-Ne-221-1
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.40 km² overlap

6 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Central Platte River Fee
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
0.36 km² overlap
Bufflehead
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.14 km² overlap
Kea Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.13 km² overlap
Denman Island
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.08 km² overlap
Kea West
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Wood River West
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.02 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 163 distinct species · 127 149 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Platte River : 28 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.114

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°

9,9°C

Annual rain

638mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,43

Runoff

86mm/an

PET

1 121mm

AET

545mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

11cm

Forest

33%

Crops

76%

Urban

Protected

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