HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080573090
Bassin de Gasconade 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 5 administrative regions : Gasconade, Maries, Osage, Phelps, Pulaski
Sub-basin area
1 971km²
Upstream area
9 323,1km²
Discharge
106,9m³/s
Mean elev.
242m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 588.4 km²29.8% of basin
- Osage573.0 km²29.1% of basin
- 521.1 km²26.4% of basin
- 261.5 km²13.3% of basin
- Pulaski28.3 km²1.4% of basin
16 intersecting protected areas
Canaan
IUCN VConservation Area
5.82 km² overlap
Spring Creek Gap
IUCN VConservation Area
4.39 km² overlap
Spring Creek Gap Glades
IUCN VNatural Area
2.84 km² overlap
Clifty Creek
IUCN VNatural Area
1.97 km² overlap
Cooper Hill
IUCN VConservation Area
0.89 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.49 km² overlap
Rollins Ferry
IUCN VAccess
0.06 km² overlap
Helds Island
IUCN VAccess
0.04 km² overlap
Jerome
IUCN VAccess
0.04 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Pointers Creek
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Bell Chute
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Paydown
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Fredericksburg Ferry
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Freeburg Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.02 km² overlap
Canaan Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.02 km² overlap
Gasconade Park
IUCN VAccess
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 877 distinct species · 22 470 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 Gasconade River : 35 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.0%, 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°
12,6°C
Annual rain
1 012mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
345mm/an
PET
1 195mm
AET
855mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
218cm
Forest
86%
Crops
28%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)