HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080459120
Bassin de Wind 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 : Fremont, Sublette
Sub-basin area
1 547,2km²
Upstream area
4 344,2km²
Discharge
9,78m³/s
Mean elev.
2 513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de East Fork Wind River1108 km²
- Bassin de Wind River432 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fremont1549.0 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Fitzpatrick
IUCN IbWilderness
355.01 km² overlap
Whiskey Basin
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Management Area
15.77 km² overlap
Spence & Moriarity
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Management Area
3.60 km² overlap
Bridger
IUCN IbWilderness
0.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
552 distinct species · 6 383 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 Wind River : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 18.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
1,9°C
Annual rain
377mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
126mm/an
PET
835mm
AET
315mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
470cm
Forest
38%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)