HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080407290
Bassin de East Bench Canal
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 : Beaverhead
Sub-basin area
621,9km²
Upstream area
7 659,1km²
Discharge
22,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 979m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Grasshopper Creek911 km²
- Bassin de Beaverhead River180 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 623.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Blacktail Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
19.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
602 distinct species · 7 158 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 East Bench Canal : 25 espèces reliées par 123 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
3,4°C
Annual rain
321mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
894mm
AET
284mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
689cm
Forest
35%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)