HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080466990
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
582km²
Upstream area
76 527km²
Discharge
441,84m³/s
Mean elev.
1 176m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pasigoteka’a Naokwaide653 km²
- Bassin de Snake River647 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ElmoreIdaho · United States562.6 km²96.5% of basin
- OwyheeIdaho · United States20.5 km²3.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
King Hill Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
115.62 km² overlap
Sikes Act
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
0.92 km² overlap
Three Island Crossing
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
522 distinct species · 10 390 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 19 espèces reliées par 121 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 24.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
8,4°C
Annual rain
322mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
145mm/an
PET
1 159mm
AET
276mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
775cm
Forest
26%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)