National Monument · usa
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Kaiparowits Unit
- Area
- 2 232 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
1 448 distinct species · 33 380 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 - Kaiparowits Unit : 5 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 40.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology14 basins · 0 lakes · 37 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
403,2km
Basins crossed
14
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
275 448km²
Discharge in basins
125,7m³/s
Mean precip.
207mm/an
Mean T°
11,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,83
Max snow
22%
Mean runoff
21mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 703m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Last Chance Creeksub-area1 202,8 km²overlap617.28 km²28%
- Bassin de Wahweap Creeksub-area1 197,5 km²overlap502.11 km²22%
- Bassin de Right Hand Collet Canyonsub-area568,5 km²overlap294.09 km²13%
- Bassin de Hackberry Creeksub-area276,9 km²overlap227.19 km²10%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area852,9 km²overlap136.83 km²6%
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area252 km²overlap99.57 km²4%
- Bassin de Escalante Riversub-area1 337 km²overlap90.19 km²4%
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area294,5 km²overlap80.93 km²4%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 135,7 km²overlap69.50 km²3%
5 more basinssorted by overlap
Rivers / streams (37, ord ≥ 4)
- Wahweap Creekord 4len here72.45 km53%total137 km
- Hackberry Creekord 2len here46.52 km70%total66 km
- Paria Riverord 5len here29.47 km14%total206 km
- Right Hand Collet Canyonord 3len here29.18 km67%total44 km
- Escalante Canyonord 2len here27.67 km100%total28 km
- Rogers Canyonord 3len here26.03 km83%total31 km
- Paradise Canyonord 1len here16.56 km82%total20 km
- Last Chance Creekord 3len here11.36 km13%total89 km
- Left Hand Collet Canyonord 1len here11.04 km100%total11 km
- Tommy Smith Creekord 2len here10.71 km100%total11 km
- Henrieville Creekord 1len here9.40 km66%total14 km
- Clints Canyonord 1len here8.77 km81%total11 km
25 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Wesses Canyonord 2len here7.63 km29%total26 km
- Dry Rock Creekord 2len here7.03 km24%total29 km
- Monday Canyonord 1len here6.88 km95%total7 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 6len here6.57 km1%total474 km
- Sheep Creekord 3len here6.51 km7%total90 km
- Fourmile Canyonord 2len here6.24 km21%total29 km
- Cedar Washord 6len here5.80 km4%total149 km
- Drip Tank Canyonord 1len here5.77 km74%total8 km
- Cedar Holloword 2len here5.37 km55%total10 km
- Basin Canyonord 1len here4.95 km100%total5 km
- Coyote Creekord 3len here4.90 km9%total53 km
- Shittum Washord 3len here4.63 km44%total11 km
- Mud Spring Canyonord 1len here4.52 km52%total9 km
- Horse Creekord 2len here3.88 km10%total37 km
- Willow Gulchord 1len here3.47 km63%total6 km
- Navajo Canyonord 2len here3.09 km11%total28 km
- Croton Canyonord 3len here3.06 km23%total13 km
- Twentymile Washord 3len here3.01 km23%total13 km
- Fortymile Creekord 2len here2.83 km14%total21 km
- Wiggler Washord 2len here2.20 km15%total15 km
- Reese Canyonord 1len here2.04 km10%total20 km
- Nipple Creekord 1len here1.70 km19%total9 km
- John Henry Canyonord 2len here1.39 km33%total4 km
- Sunnday Canyonord 1len here0.36 km4%total9 km
- Indian Holloword 2len here0.16 km0%total35 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
- 37.43077, -111.74700
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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.