HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080604300
Bassin de Cowskin 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 4 administrative regions : Cowley, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner
Sub-basin area
1 040,5km²
Upstream area
104 625,1km²
Discharge
64,97m³/s
Mean elev.
407m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arkansas River991 km²
- Bassin de Little Arkansas River454 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 833.5 km²80.1% of basin
- 175.6 km²16.9% of basin
- 24.3 km²2.3% of basin
- 7.7 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 748 distinct species · 271 192 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Cowskin Creek : 27 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
13,6°C
Annual rain
795mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 218mm
AET
675mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
51cm
Forest
7%
Crops
60%
Urban
27%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)