HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080508050
Bassin de North Platte 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 : Albany, Carbon, Jackson, Larimer, Routt
Sub-basin area
2 209km²
Upstream area
5 800,7km²
Discharge
11,1m³/s
Mean elev.
2 651m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Canadian River519 km²
- Bassin de North Platte River29 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Carbon1366.5 km²61.8% of basin
- Jackson453.3 km²20.5% of basin
- Albany390.4 km²17.6% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Platte River
IUCN IbWilderness
94.29 km² overlap
Savage Run
IUCN IbWilderness
61.85 km² overlap
Mount Zirkel
IUCN IbWilderness
42.43 km² overlap
Arapaho
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
8.54 km² overlap
Prospect Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
4.60 km² overlap
Kettle Lakes
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
1.52 km² overlap
Platte River Contiguous
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 508 distinct species · 36 531 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 North Platte River : 30 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
2,4°C
Annual rain
509mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
867mm
AET
436mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
540cm
Forest
80%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)