HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080579900
Bassin de Cottonwood 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 : Butler, Chase, Marion, Morris
Sub-basin area
1 071,6km²
Upstream area
2 960,1km²
Discharge
17,13m³/s
Mean elev.
427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Doyle Creek367 km²
- Bassin de Cottonwood River189 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 676.5 km²63.1% of basin
- Marion351.5 km²32.8% of basin
- Butler28.7 km²2.7% of basin
- 15.7 km²1.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
5.96 km² overlap
Greater Flint Hills
IUCN VConservation Easement
1.68 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
701 distinct species · 8 248 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Cottonwood River : 35 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 208mm
AET
725mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
140cm
Forest
0%
Crops
30%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)