National Monument · usa
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Grand Staircase Unit
- Area
- 858 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
969 distinct species · 7 182 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 - Grand Staircase Unit : 9 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 31.9%, 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).
Hydrology6 basins · 0 lakes · 22 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
145,4km
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 834km²
Discharge in basins
1,5m³/s
Mean precip.
305mm/an
Mean T°
9,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,75
Max snow
14%
Mean runoff
33mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 837m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Johnson Washsub-area1 711,4 km²overlap328.97 km²38%
- Bassin de Buckskin Gulchsub-area1 243,2 km²overlap283.29 km²33%
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area294,5 km²overlap194.99 km²23%
- Bassin de Sheep Creeksub-area265,4 km²overlap34.78 km²4%
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area288,5 km²overlap16.01 km²2%
- Bassin de Kanab Creeksub-area1 105,1 km²overlap0.28 km²0%
Rivers / streams (22, ord ≥ 4)
- Johnson Washord 4len here27.52 km23%total121 km
- Park Washord 3len here19.86 km78%total26 km
- Deer Spring Washord 3len here17.71 km64%total28 km
- Paria Riverord 5len here15.16 km7%total206 km
- Deer Range Canyonord 1len here6.89 km100%total7 km
- Sheep Creekord 3len here6.59 km7%total90 km
- Right Fork Cottonwood Canyonord 1len here6.33 km100%total6 km
- Bull Valley Gorgeord 2len here5.85 km100%total6 km
- Cottonwood Canyonord 5len here5.11 km4%total125 km
- Lower Podunk Creekord 2len here4.69 km28%total17 km
- Left Fork Cottonwood Canyonord 1len here4.51 km100%total5 km
- Adams Washord 1len here4.18 km45%total9 km
10 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Naphi Washord 1len here3.44 km100%total3 km
- Box Elder Canyonord 1len here3.33 km100%total3 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 6len here3.10 km1%total474 km
- Fin Little Washord 1len here2.96 km75%total4 km
- Slide Canyonord 2len here2.44 km8%total29 km
- Clay Hole Washord 4len here2.04 km38%total5 km
- Bull Valleyord 2len here1.42 km18%total8 km
- Indian Holloword 2len here1.26 km4%total35 km
- Seaman Washord 2len here1.05 km8%total12 km
- Kitchen Corral Washord 4len here≈ tangenttotal13 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
- 37.26797, -112.11479
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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.