HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080588390
Bassin de Cow Creek
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 : Barton, Ellsworth, Reno, Rice, Rush
Sub-basin area
2 228,3km²
Upstream area
2 228,3km²
Discharge
6,12m³/s
Mean elev.
548m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 956.8 km²42.9% of basin
- 920.6 km²41.3% of basin
- 262.3 km²11.8% of basin
- 83.7 km²3.8% of basin
- Rush6.4 km²0.3% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Cheyenne Bottoms
IUCN VWildlife Area
76.28 km² overlap
Cheyenne Bottoms Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
31.26 km² overlap
Cheyenne Bottoms
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
18.07 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.90 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 772 distinct species · 282 813 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Cow Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
12,7°C
Annual rain
678mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 235mm
AET
577mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
85cm
Forest
1%
Crops
80%
Urban
1%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)