National Park · usa
Capitol Reef
- Area
- 988 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
1 406 distinct species · 36 793 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 52 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 Capitol Reef : 40 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 0 lakes · 26 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
253,5km
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
202 184km²
Discharge in basins
94,8m³/s
Mean precip.
251mm/an
Mean T°
8,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,76
Max snow
17%
Mean runoff
18mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 006m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Fremont Riversub-area1 741,5 km²overlap478.45 km²48%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 103,8 km²overlap224.90 km²23%
- Bassin de Oak Creeksub-area539,2 km²overlap141.66 km²14%
- Bassin de Muddy Creeksub-area4 030,2 km²overlap78.15 km²8%
- Bassin de Hartnet Drawsub-area325,9 km²overlap44.09 km²4%
- Bassin de Horse Canyonsub-area824,2 km²overlap16.91 km²2%
- Bassin de Escalante Riversub-area1 337 km²overlap3.80 km²0%
- Bassin de Bullfrog Creeksub-area797,2 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Rivers / streams (26, ord ≥ 4)
- Halls Creekord 3len here38.96 km61%total64 km
- Deep Creekord 5len here32.73 km14%total227 km
- Fremont Riverord 4len here25.30 km10%total250 km
- A-Door-Able Canyonord 1len here17.89 km84%total21 km
- Lower Muley Twist Canyonord 2len here14.21 km100%total14 km
- Bullberry Creekord 2len here14.17 km67%total21 km
- Sulphur Creekord 4len here12.76 km15%total82 km
- Middle Desert Washord 2len here12.12 km37%total32 km
- Hartnet Draword 1len here11.27 km38%total30 km
- Water Pocket Canyonord 1len here9.87 km83%total12 km
- Divide Canyon / Sandy Creekord 2len here9.17 km71%total13 km
- Bitter Spring Creekord 1len here8.05 km100%total8 km
14 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Oak Creekord 4len here7.94 km4%total208 km
- Sandy Creekord 3len here7.21 km20%total36 km
- Wingate Wanderord 3len here6.20 km54%total12 km
- Upper Muley Twist Canyonord 2len here5.76 km74%total8 km
- Pleasant Creekord 3len here4.72 km13%total35 km
- South Coleman Canyonord 1len here2.97 km100%total3 km
- North Coleman Canyonord 1len here2.80 km95%total3 km
- South Draword 1len here2.67 km100%total3 km
- Swap Canyonord 1len here2.21 km40%total6 km
- Bitter Creekord 5len here2.20 km1%total154 km
- Rock Springs Washord 2len here1.26 km6%total22 km
- Red Canyonord 3len here0.55 km2%total26 km
- Dogwater Creekord 2len here0.39 km6%total6 km
- Cottonwood Washord 6len here0.12 km0%total601 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
- 38.06705, -111.15529
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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.