National Park · usa
Canyonlands
- Area
- 1 354 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
0 - Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 201 distinct species · 29 146 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Canyonlands : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 117 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 1 lakes · 38 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
391,4km
Lake surface here
0,12km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
185 433km²
Discharge in basins
372,9m³/s
Mean precip.
252mm/an
Mean T°
10,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,80
Max snow
9%
Mean runoff
21mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 654m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Green Riversub-area2 724,6 km²overlap532.37 km²39%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area425,9 km²overlap346.25 km²26%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 892,6 km²overlap246.09 km²18%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area676,2 km²overlap173.30 km²13%
- Bassin de Indian Creeksub-area1 199,1 km²overlap55.71 km²4%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (38, ord ≥ 4)
- Green Riverord 7len here79.21 km4%total1817 km
- Colorado Riverord 8len here66.90 km2%total3561 km
- Salt Creekord 4len here34.17 km40%total85 km
- Taylor Canyonord 2len here25.42 km100%total25 km
- Horse Canyonord 4len here23.02 km18%total127 km
- Butler Washord 7len here11.86 km14%total82 km
- Little Spring Canyonord 3len here10.68 km100%total11 km
- Musselman Canyonord 6len here10.50 km76%total14 km
- Elephant Canyonord 6len here10.08 km100%total10 km
- Lost Canyonord 2len here8.53 km35%total24 km
- Buck Canyonord 3len here8.45 km35%total24 km
- South Fork Horse Canyonord 1len here7.42 km100%total7 km
26 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Butler Wash - Lower Red Lake Canyonord 7len here7.20 km100%total7 km
- Aztec Canyonord 1len here7.16 km100%total7 km
- Water Canyonord 3len here6.65 km40%total17 km
- Cross Canyonord 3len here6.30 km6%total105 km
- Lens Canyonord 2len here6.16 km100%total6 km
- Murphy Washord 1len here5.03 km100%total5 km
- Chesler Canyonord 2len here4.83 km100%total5 km
- Upheaval Canyonord 1len here4.69 km100%total5 km
- Teapot Canyonord 1len here4.29 km93%total5 km
- Big Spring Canyonord 2len here4.12 km14%total29 km
- Middle Fork Shafer Canyonord 2len here4.10 km99%total4 km
- The Big Draword 1len here4.03 km41%total10 km
- West Fork Lavender Creekord 1len here3.67 km77%total5 km
- Horseshoe Canyon/Barrier Creekord 3len here3.23 km10%total31 km
- East Fork Salt Creekord 1len here3.19 km47%total7 km
- Lathrop Canyonord 1len here2.80 km100%total3 km
- Jasper Canyon - Closed to the Public per NPSord 1len here2.57 km100%total3 km
- Davis Canyonord 2len here2.32 km9%total27 km
- Rough Canyonord 5len here2.31 km8%total29 km
- Gooseberry Canyonord 1len here2.09 km100%total2 km
- Deadhorse Canyonord 1len here1.89 km29%total6 km
- South Fork Shafer Canyonord 2len here1.85 km32%total6 km
- Shafer Canyonord 2len here1.85 km43%total4 km
- Millard Canyonord 2len here1.07 km4%total24 km
- Lockhart Canyonord 2len here0.95 km5%total21 km
- Indian Creekord 4len here0.81 km0%total287 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
- 38.24301, -109.92067
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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.