HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080370270
Bassin de Big Sand Creek
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 2 administrative regions : Idaho, Ravalli
Sub-basin area
632,8km²
Upstream area
632,8km²
Discharge
7,74m³/s
Mean elev.
1 855m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- IdahoIdaho · United States629.4 km²99.2% of basin
- 4.9 km²0.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Selway-Bitterroot
IUCN IbWilderness
400.81 km² overlap
Sneakfoot Meadows
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
6.43 km² overlap
Grave Peak
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
1.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
316 distinct species · 2 210 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Big Sand Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 25 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°
2,3°C
Annual rain
520mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
381mm/an
PET
837mm
AET
445mm
Mean slope
16,3°
Water table
867cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
64%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)