HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080472210
Bassin de Salmon Falls Creek
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 3 administrative regions : Gooding, Owyhee, Twin Falls
Sub-basin area
773,6km²
Upstream area
5 977,8km²
Discharge
23,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 422m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cedar Creek422 km²
- Bassin de Salmon Falls Creek61 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Twin FallsIdaho · United States595.9 km²76.9% of basin
- OwyheeIdaho · United States179.0 km²23.1% of basin
- GoodingIdaho · United States0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sikes Act
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
7.82 km² overlap
Lower Salmon Falls Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
2.53 km² overlap
Niagara Springs
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
519 distinct species · 16 107 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Salmon Falls Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
273mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
103mm/an
PET
1 114mm
AET
237mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
911cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)