HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080478070
Bassin de Sweetwater 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 4 administrative regions : Carbon, Fremont, Natrona, Sweetwater
Sub-basin area
1 447,6km²
Upstream area
6 043km²
Discharge
17,26m³/s
Mean elev.
2 039m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sage Hen Creek636 km²
- Bassin de Sweetwater River28 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Carbon603.0 km²41.6% of basin
- 434.4 km²30.0% of basin
- Fremont410.5 km²28.3% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.1% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Ferris Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
67.05 km² overlap
Split Rock
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
57.12 km² overlap
Miller Springs
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
27.09 km² overlap
Savage Peak
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
26.22 km² overlap
Lankin Dome
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
15.15 km² overlap
Independence Rock
IUCN IIIIndependence Rock
0.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
820 distinct species · 5 508 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 Sweetwater River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
5,8°C
Annual rain
265mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
976mm
AET
236mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
709cm
Forest
13%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)