HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080572310
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 : Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego
Sub-basin area
1 594,4km²
Upstream area
14 464,7km²
Discharge
4,33m³/s
Mean elev.
691m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hackberry Creek1673 km²
- Bassin de Smoky Hill River904 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 913.6 km²57.3% of basin
- 457.0 km²28.6% of basin
- 165.4 km²10.4% of basin
- Rush59.6 km²3.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cedar Bluff
IUCN VWildlife Area
46.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
925 distinct species · 22 519 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 : 35 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
11,8°C
Annual rain
552mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
1 246mm
AET
470mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
301cm
Forest
3%
Crops
55%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)