HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080474620
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 : Jerome, Twin Falls
Sub-basin area
350,2km²
Upstream area
54 140,3km²
Discharge
300,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Milner Gooding Canal705 km²
- Bassin de Snake River185 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- JeromeIdaho · United States245.5 km²70.0% of basin
- Twin FallsIdaho · United States105.3 km²30.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sikes Act
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
3.54 km² overlap
Tom Courtney
IUCN VConservation Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 165 distinct species · 84 665 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 22 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 18.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
1 135mm
AET
217mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
498cm
Forest
14%
Crops
36%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)