HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080077830
Bassin de Cottonwood Canyon
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Iron
Sub-basin area
374,2km²
Upstream area
374,4km²
Discharge
1,41m³/s
Mean elev.
1 924m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- IronUtah · United States374.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Spring Creek Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
5.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
583 distinct species · 23 761 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Bassin de Cottonwood Canyon : 22 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
8,7°C
Annual rain
378mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
104mm/an
PET
1 182mm
AET
324mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
546cm
Forest
39%
Crops
6%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)