HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080397270
Bassin de Salmon River
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 : Idaho
Sub-basin area
173,6km²
Upstream area
25 874,7km²
Discharge
186,02m³/s
Mean elev.
1 733m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sabe Creek230 km²
- Bassin de Big Bear Creek127 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- IdahoIdaho · United States174.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wilderness
174.01 km² overlap
Salmon, Idaho
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
13.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
103 distinct species · 262 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Salmon River : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
2,9°C
Annual rain
620mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
429mm/an
PET
903mm
AET
514mm
Mean slope
20,9°
Water table
769cm
Forest
83%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)