HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080570520
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 : Barton, Ellis, Rush, Russell
Sub-basin area
536,2km²
Upstream area
15 479,1km²
Discharge
5,28m³/s
Mean elev.
597m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Smoky Hill River1594 km²
- Bassin de Big Timber Creek478 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Rush274.7 km²51.2% of basin
- 121.7 km²22.7% of basin
- Russell99.2 km²18.5% of basin
- 41.0 km²7.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
247 distinct species · 1 028 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 125 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.0%, 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°
12,3°C
Annual rain
612mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
1 247mm
AET
520mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
178cm
Forest
0%
Crops
73%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)