HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080477260
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 : Cassia, Minidoka
Sub-basin area
273,9km²
Upstream area
48 179,2km²
Discharge
280,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 291m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #70804732901611 km²
- Bassin de Snake River1002 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CassiaIdaho · United States159.8 km²58.3% of basin
- MinidokaIdaho · United States114.5 km²41.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sikes Act
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
1.23 km² overlap
Walcott Island
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
330 distinct species · 8 916 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 Snake River : 25 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.8%, 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°
8,4°C
Annual rain
259mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 101mm
AET
226mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
222cm
Forest
19%
Crops
66%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)