HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080478050
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 5 administrative regions : Cassia, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, Twin Falls
Sub-basin area
471,7km²
Upstream area
52 334,8km²
Discharge
292,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Goose Creek2439 km²
- Bassin de Snake River23 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MinidokaIdaho · United States257.2 km²54.4% of basin
- CassiaIdaho · United States127.0 km²26.9% of basin
- JeromeIdaho · United States63.6 km²13.5% of basin
- Twin FallsIdaho · United States20.5 km²4.3% of basin
- LincolnIdaho · United States4.3 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sikes Act
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Area
11.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
302 distinct species · 6 017 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.5%, 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°
8,5°C
Annual rain
262mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
1 099mm
AET
229mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
363cm
Forest
14%
Crops
60%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)