National Monument · usa
Canyons Of The Ancients
- Area
- 739 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- National Monument
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- National Park Service ; Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
855 distinct species · 32 998 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Canyons Of The Ancients : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, 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).
Hydrology2 basins · 0 lakes · 22 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
241,6km
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 876km²
Discharge in basins
1,6m³/s
Mean precip.
349mm/an
Mean T°
9,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,71
Max snow
10%
Mean runoff
60mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 896m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (22, ord ≥ 4)
- Yellow Jacket Canyonord 3len here43.39 km81%total53 km
- Cross Canyonord 3len here36.25 km34%total105 km
- Hovenweep Canyonord 2len here30.26 km97%total31 km
- Sandstone Canyonord 2len here22.04 km84%total26 km
- Negro Canyonord 1len here14.25 km100%total14 km
- McElmo Creekord 4len here13.98 km10%total134 km
- Ruin Canyonord 1len here13.50 km100%total13 km
- Bug Canyonord 2len here10.15 km30%total34 km
- Woods Canyonord 1len here9.34 km100%total9 km
- Cow Canyonord 3len here7.35 km8%total95 km
- Cahone Canyonord 2len here6.19 km55%total11 km
- Goodman Canyonord 1len here6.09 km97%total6 km
10 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Bridge Canyonord 7len here5.58 km33%total17 km
- Morrison Canyonord 1len here5.17 km65%total8 km
- Moccasin Canyonord 1len here3.39 km36%total9 km
- Papoose Canyonord 1len here3.36 km47%total7 km
- Sand Canyonord 2len here3.09 km63%total5 km
- Rock Creekord 4len here2.89 km1%total204 km
- Burro Canyonord 1len here2.77 km28%total10 km
- Dawson Draword 1len here1.24 km8%total16 km
- Little Cahone Canyonord 1len here1.06 km15%total7 km
- Keeley Canyonord 1len here0.30 km5%total7 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
- 37.45790, -108.87518
- 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.