National Monument · usa
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Escalante Canyons Unit
- Area
- 985 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1996
Overview
- Designation
- National Monument
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1996
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 807 distinct species · 50 607 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Escalante Canyons Unit : 18 espèces reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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 · 32 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
274,9km
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
5 244km²
Discharge in basins
0,9m³/s
Mean precip.
259mm/an
Mean T°
8,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,76
Max snow
31%
Mean runoff
20mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 011m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Horse Canyonsub-area824,2 km²overlap391.96 km²40%
- Bassin de Sand Creeksub-area462,6 km²overlap253.82 km²26%
- Bassin de Alvey Washsub-area668,5 km²overlap174.28 km²18%
- Bassin de Deer Creeksub-area452,6 km²overlap92.27 km²9%
- Bassin de Right Hand Collet Canyonsub-area568,5 km²overlap56.19 km²6%
- Bassin de Pine Creeksub-area249,2 km²overlap13.82 km²1%
- Bassin de Escalante Riversub-area1 337 km²overlap1.90 km²0%
- Bassin de Escalante Riversub-area114,2 km²overlap0.91 km²0%
Rivers / streams (32, ord ≥ 4)
- Escalante Riverord 4len here37.66 km23%total162 km
- Horse Canyonord 4len here27.97 km22%total127 km
- Sand Creekord 4len here21.56 km27%total81 km
- The Gulchord 4len here17.68 km100%total18 km
- Pine Creekord 4len here14.67 km6%total260 km
- Death Hollow Creekord 2len here14.52 km60%total24 km
- Indian Hollow Canyonord 1len here13.42 km68%total20 km
- Deer Creekord 3len here12.86 km8%total157 km
- Harris Washord 3len here12.08 km100%total12 km
- Boulder Creekord 3len here10.25 km7%total138 km
- Long Canyonord 3len here10.25 km26%total40 km
- Upper Calf Creekord 1len here9.72 km100%total10 km
20 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Steep Creekord 1len here9.33 km49%total19 km
- Cottonwood Canyonord 5len here8.06 km6%total125 km
- Wolverine Creekord 1len here7.42 km94%total8 km
- Halfway Holloword 2len here7.11 km25%total28 km
- Dry Fork Silver Falls Creekord 2len here5.65 km63%total9 km
- Red Breaksord 3len here4.14 km100%total4 km
- Mamie Creekord 2len here4.08 km100%total4 km
- Hot Canyonord 1len here3.98 km100%total4 km
- Harris Wash Trailord 3len here3.98 km100%total4 km
- Twentyfive Mile Washord 3len here3.86 km93%total4 km
- Silver Falls Creekord 2len here3.03 km25%total12 km
- Sweetwater Creekord 3len here2.77 km3%total103 km
- Slickrock Canyonord 3len here1.79 km46%total4 km
- Big Horn Creekord 1len here1.75 km100%total2 km
- Alvey Washord 3len here1.22 km2%total61 km
- Cottonwood Washord 6len here1.11 km0%total601 km
- Moody Creekord 3len here1.06 km3%total31 km
- Egypt 0ord 3len here0.73 km4%total19 km
- Twentymile Washord 3len here0.65 km5%total13 km
- Rat Seep Holloword 2len here0.49 km6%total8 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
- 37.76375, -111.35955
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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.