HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080522830
Bassin de Dale Creek
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 : Albany, Laramie, Larimer
Sub-basin area
1 475,3km²
Upstream area
1 475,3km²
Discharge
2,58m³/s
Mean elev.
2 361m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1217.8 km²82.4% of basin
- Albany259.3 km²17.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Eagle's Nest
IUCN Not AssignedOpen Space
66.94 km² overlap
Lone Pine
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
16.98 km² overlap
Phantom Canyon
IUCN VPreserve
4.78 km² overlap
State Wildlife Area
2.48 km² overlap
Yampa River
IUCN VEasement
2.04 km² overlap
5 Card Draw
IUCN VPreserve
1.24 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
1.24 km² overlap
Eagle's Nest OS
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.20 km² overlap
Antelope Canyon
IUCN VPreserve
1.04 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Laramie Foothills
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.97 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.93 km² overlap
Cap Rock
IUCN VPreserve
0.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 292 distinct species · 44 910 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Dale Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
4,4°C
Annual rain
421mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
935mm
AET
366mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
807cm
Forest
61%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)