HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080517750
Bassin de Jordan 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 : Davis, Salt Lake
Sub-basin area
303,5km²
Upstream area
8 564,3km²
Discharge
50,27m³/s
Mean elev.
1 533m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Emigration Creek320 km²
- Bassin de Jordan River25 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Salt LakeUtah · United States222.8 km²73.3% of basin
- DavisUtah · United States81.1 km²26.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Red Butte Canyon
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
21.02 km² overlap
Farmington Bay
IUCN VState Wildlife Area
9.24 km² overlap
Military Reservation
1.47 km² overlap
State Wildlife Reserve/Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 539 distinct species · 519 034 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Jordan River : 19 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.9%, 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
524mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
218mm/an
PET
1 117mm
AET
440mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
270cm
Forest
30%
Crops
7%
Urban
42%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)