HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080537640
Bassin de Big Blue 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 : Gage, Lancaster
Sub-basin area
885,3km²
Upstream area
10 459,3km²
Discharge
50,2m³/s
Mean elev.
418m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cub Creek357 km²
- Bassin de Big Blue River295 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 882.3 km²99.5% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Iron Horse Trail
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.30 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
785 distinct species · 16 426 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Big Blue River : 23 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.9%, 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
789mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
1 128mm
AET
670mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
114cm
Forest
1%
Crops
79%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)