HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080519350
Bassin de Michigan 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 3 administrative regions : Grand, Jackson, Larimer
Sub-basin area
1 189,4km²
Upstream area
1 189,4km²
Discharge
2,78m³/s
Mean elev.
2 768m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Jackson1188.2 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.1% of basin
- Grand1.0 km²0.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Arapaho
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
70.28 km² overlap
Never Summer
IUCN IbWilderness
27.96 km² overlap
Rocky Mountain National Park
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1.45 km² overlap
Rocky Mountain
IUCN IINational Park
1.44 km² overlap
Neota
IUCN IbWilderness
1.35 km² overlap
Bowen Gulch
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.43 km² overlap
Brocker SHA
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.27 km² overlap
Rawah
IUCN IbWilderness
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 806 distinct species · 119 608 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 Michigan River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
1,3°C
Annual rain
613mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
851mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
301cm
Forest
59%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)