HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080567510
Bassin de Smoky Hill 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 : Dickinson, Marion, McPherson, Saline
Sub-basin area
762,1km²
Upstream area
30 655km²
Discharge
35,3m³/s
Mean elev.
412m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Smoky Hill River3420 km²
- Bassin de Saline River51 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Saline398.5 km²52.3% of basin
- 302.0 km²39.6% of basin
- Dickinson48.3 km²6.3% of basin
- Marion13.9 km²1.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Maxwell
IUCN VWildlife Refuge
9.00 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
857 distinct species · 11 334 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 Smoky Hill River : 29 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
799mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
130mm/an
PET
1 211mm
AET
678mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
129cm
Forest
3%
Crops
77%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)