HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080465580
Bassin de Snake 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 4 administrative regions : Elmore, Gooding, Owyhee, Twin Falls
Sub-basin area
646,8km²
Upstream area
75 291,9km²
Discharge
438m³/s
Mean elev.
990m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de W Canal489 km²
- Bassin de Malad River160 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ElmoreIdaho · United States250.4 km²38.7% of basin
- GoodingIdaho · United States210.2 km²32.4% of basin
- Twin FallsIdaho · United States170.6 km²26.3% of basin
- OwyheeIdaho · United States16.7 km²2.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sikes Act
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
15.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
702 distinct species · 8 977 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Snake River : 29 espèces reliées par 132 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.8%, 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°
10,0°C
Annual rain
255mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
128mm/an
PET
1 203mm
AET
220mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
776cm
Forest
6%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)