HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080545600
Bassin de Sangamon 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 7 administrative regions : Christian, Logan, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt +2
Sub-basin area
1 799,3km²
Upstream area
3 723,4km²
Discharge
35,88m³/s
Mean elev.
194m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sangamon River1615 km²
- Bassin de Friends Creek308 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Macon1025.3 km²56.9% of basin
- 393.9 km²21.9% of basin
- 354.0 km²19.7% of basin
- 22.6 km²1.3% of basin
- Shelby4.9 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Rock Springs
IUCN VConservation Area
5.19 km² overlap
Spitler Woods
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.80 km² overlap
Fort Daniel
IUCN VConservation Area
0.76 km² overlap
Calamus Lake
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.48 km² overlap
Bois du Sangamon
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.18 km² overlap
Griswold
IUCN VConservation Area
0.16 km² overlap
Leiby Hall
IUCN VConservation Area
0.14 km² overlap
Upper Sangamon
IUCN VNatural Area
0.04 km² overlap
Bois Du Sangamon
IUCN VConservation Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 212 distinct species · 89 176 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Sangamon River : 28 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
965mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
284mm/an
PET
1 119mm
AET
813mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
28cm
Forest
5%
Crops
81%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)