HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080479620
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 2 administrative regions : Carbon, Natrona
Sub-basin area
848,5km²
Upstream area
7 421,3km²
Discharge
19,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1 923m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sweetwater River1448 km²
- Bassin de Sweetwater River530 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 706.2 km²83.1% of basin
- Carbon143.6 km²16.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pathfinder
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
7.30 km² overlap
Ferris Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
4.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
267 distinct species · 2 492 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
6,4°C
Annual rain
271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
55mm/an
PET
998mm
AET
241mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
843cm
Forest
4%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)