Lake · usa
Great Sand Dunes/San Luis Lakes
- Area
- 227 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2003
Overview
- Designation
- Lake
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2003
- Managing authority
- Non-Governmental Organization
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
584 distinct species · 10 253 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Great Sand Dunes/San Luis Lakes : 29 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
80,6km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
7 516km²
Discharge in basins
2,1m³/s
Mean precip.
299mm/an
Mean T°
4,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,69
Max snow
23%
Mean runoff
16mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 511m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Franklin Eddy Canalsub-area794,1 km²overlap97.45 km²43%
- Bassin de Rio Grande Drainsub-area528,1 km²overlap51.69 km²23%
- Bassin de Little Spring Creeksub-area308,4 km²overlap46.93 km²21%
- Bassin de Sand Creeksub-area217,3 km²overlap26.54 km²12%
- Bassin de San Luis Creeksub-area1 892,6 km²overlap4.81 km²2%
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- North Zapata Creekord 1len here20.89 km80%total26 km
- South Zapata Creekord 1len here11.90 km64%total18 km
- Little Spring Creekord 2len here10.49 km42%total25 km
- Big Spring Creekord 2len here9.24 km36%total26 km
- Franklin Eddy Canalord 5len here6.68 km5%total147 km
- San Luis Creekord 5len here6.61 km7%total92 km
- Urraca Creekord 1len here5.07 km66%total8 km
- Arena Creekord 2len here3.43 km52%total7 km
- Pioneer Creekord 1len here3.43 km65%total5 km
- Sand Creekord 1len here2.07 km12%total17 km
- Streator Lateralord 1len here0.80 km12%total6 km
- Pole Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal18 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
- 37.68513, -105.79134
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.