HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080398710
Bassin de Beaverhead 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 2 administrative regions : Beaverhead, Madison
Sub-basin area
1 070,7km²
Upstream area
9 684,5km²
Discharge
28,96m³/s
Mean elev.
1 730m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de East Bench Canal954 km²
- Bassin de East Bench Canal622 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 607.3 km²56.6% of basin
- Madison465.9 km²43.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ruby Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
34.77 km² overlap
Lower Big Hole River
IUCN VEasement
5.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
860 distinct species · 37 858 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Beaverhead River : 15 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 24.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
4,9°C
Annual rain
294mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
946mm
AET
261mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
594cm
Forest
15%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)