HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080421620
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 2 administrative regions : Custer, Lemhi
Sub-basin area
478,7km²
Upstream area
6 267,7km²
Discharge
40,11m³/s
Mean elev.
2 016m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salmon River388 km²
- Bassin de Garden Creek237 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CusterIdaho · United States473.8 km²98.8% of basin
- LemhiIdaho · United States6.0 km²1.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Anadromous Spawning Area
IUCN VAnadromous Spawning Area
1.26 km² overlap
Wilderness
0.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
570 distinct species · 4 447 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 118 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.8%, 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°
2,9°C
Annual rain
340mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
176mm/an
PET
923mm
AET
297mm
Mean slope
14,3°
Water table
632cm
Forest
52%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)