HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080418380
Bassin de Loon 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 : Custer, Lemhi
Sub-basin area
921,2km²
Upstream area
921,2km²
Discharge
7,94m³/s
Mean elev.
2 290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CusterIdaho · United States651.0 km²70.5% of basin
- LemhiIdaho · United States272.2 km²29.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Wilderness
890.72 km² overlap
Anadromous Spawning Area
IUCN VAnadromous Spawning Area
18.95 km² overlap
Cache Creek Lakes
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
3.21 km² overlap
Mystery Lake
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
2.11 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
0.36 km² overlap
Loon Creek Ranch
IUCN VOther
0.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
479 distinct species · 1 703 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Loon Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
0,5°C
Annual rain
490mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
272mm/an
PET
829mm
AET
417mm
Mean slope
23,1°
Water table
845cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)