HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080428360
Bassin de Bighorn 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 : Big Horn
Sub-basin area
516,1km²
Upstream area
34 300km²
Discharge
84,18m³/s
Mean elev.
1 277m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nowood River710 km²
- Bassin de Bighorn River589 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Big Horn517.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sheep Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
31.84 km² overlap
Red Butte
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.50 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
271 distinct species · 1 877 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Bighorn River : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 110 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, 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°
7,2°C
Annual rain
197mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 107mm
AET
175mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
575cm
Forest
2%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)