National Park · usa
Arches
- Area
- 354 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1971
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1971
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
888 distinct species · 25 754 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Arches : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 0 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
73,1km
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
115 603km²
Discharge in basins
64,7m³/s
Mean precip.
248mm/an
Mean T°
11,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,81
Max snow
15%
Mean runoff
42mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 512m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Salt Washsub-area476,9 km²overlap193.68 km²55%
- Bassin de Courthouse Washsub-area421,8 km²overlap115.19 km²33%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area107,2 km²overlap21.56 km²6%
- Bassin de Castle Creeksub-area471,5 km²overlap13.21 km²4%
- Bassin de Pack Creeksub-area423,1 km²overlap6.00 km²2%
- Bassin de Green Riversub-area2 724,6 km²overlap4.59 km²1%
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Salt Washord 7len here27.58 km31%total88 km
- Courthouse Washord 3len here18.20 km54%total34 km
- Colorado Riverord 8len here12.72 km0%total3561 km
- Cache Valley Washord 3len here6.53 km100%total7 km
- Winter Camp Washord 2len here4.80 km49%total10 km
- Castle Creekord 6len here2.02 km1%total181 km
- Porcupine Canyonord 6len here1.28 km36%total4 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 38.72434, -109.53070
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.