HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080563490
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 : Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee
Sub-basin area
479,1km²
Upstream area
147 796km²
Discharge
246,62m³/s
Mean elev.
305m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Soldier Creek815 km²
- Bassin de Shunganuga Creek305 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.6 km²42.2% of basin
- Jefferson128.1 km²26.7% of basin
- Jackson83.8 km²17.5% of basin
- Douglas65.0 km²13.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 542 distinct species · 68 662 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.6%, 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°
12,4°C
Annual rain
916mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
234mm/an
PET
1 143mm
AET
776mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
137cm
Forest
3%
Crops
45%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)