HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080560000
Bassin de Kansas 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 : Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee
Sub-basin area
419,6km²
Upstream area
142 523,8km²
Discharge
210,72m³/s
Mean elev.
351m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Big Blue River1638 km²
- Bassin de Clarks Creek1402 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 170.2 km²40.5% of basin
- 126.1 km²30.0% of basin
- 115.3 km²27.4% of basin
- 8.4 km²2.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Greater Flint Hills Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.61 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.25 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 551 distinct species · 58 038 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Kansas River : 34 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
12,2°C
Annual rain
872mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
184mm/an
PET
1 171mm
AET
739mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
206cm
Forest
1%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)