HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080587420
Bassin de Niangua 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 6 administrative regions : Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede +1
Sub-basin area
2 678,6km²
Upstream area
2 678,6km²
Discharge
32,24m³/s
Mean elev.
328m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dallas1144.0 km²42.7% of basin
- Camden663.8 km²24.8% of basin
- 391.1 km²14.6% of basin
- Webster281.1 km²10.5% of basin
- 197.9 km²7.4% of basin
- Benton2.1 km²0.1% of basin
27 intersecting protected areas
Lead Mine
IUCN VConservation Area
31.34 km² overlap
Ha Ha Tonka
IUCN VState Park
11.27 km² overlap
Mule Shoe
IUCN VConservation Area
10.03 km² overlap
Bennett Spring
IUCN IIIState Park
9.15 km² overlap
Fiery Fork
IUCN VConservation Area
6.40 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
3.98 km² overlap
Ha Ha Tonka Savanna
IUCN VNatural Area
3.77 km² overlap
Niangua
IUCN VConservation Area
2.71 km² overlap
Goose Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
2.16 km² overlap
18 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Barclay
IUCN VConservation Area
1.59 km² overlap
Burnt Mill Cave
IUCN VConservation Area
1.27 km² overlap
Gale (Larry R)
IUCN VAccess
0.87 km² overlap
Bennett Spring
IUCN Not AssignedFish Hatchery
0.69 km² overlap
Charity
IUCN VAccess
0.59 km² overlap
Coffin Cave
IUCN VConservation Area
0.30 km² overlap
Lawson (Mary)
IUCN VConservation Area
0.25 km² overlap
Ha Ha Tonka Karst
IUCN VNatural Area
0.20 km² overlap
State Conservation Area or Park
0.18 km² overlap
Branch Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.16 km² overlap
Williams Ford
IUCN VAccess
0.15 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
Big John
IUCN VAccess
0.07 km² overlap
Prosperine
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.02 km² overlap
Moon Valley
IUCN VAccess
0.02 km² overlap
Plad Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.01 km² overlap
Climax Springs Towersite
IUCN VState Conservation Area or Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 320 distinct species · 59 819 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Niangua River : 29 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.5%, 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°
13,1°C
Annual rain
1 071mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 203mm
AET
903mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
183cm
Forest
77%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)