HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080465730
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 2 administrative regions : Elmore, Owyhee
Sub-basin area
1 608,8km²
Upstream area
80 135,5km²
Discharge
434,53m³/s
Mean elev.
1 000m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Snake River1155 km²
- Bassin de Snake River345 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ElmoreIdaho · United States1113.9 km²69.1% of basin
- OwyheeIdaho · United States497.7 km²30.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Conservation Area
620.87 km² overlap
C. J. Strike
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
24.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 232 distinct species · 75 150 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
1 183mm
AET
243mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
850cm
Forest
7%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)