HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080523330
Bassin de Cache la Poudre 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
792,2km²
Upstream area
792,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
2 927m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 791.1 km²99.7% of basin
- Jackson1.3 km²0.2% of basin
- Grand0.7 km²0.1% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Rocky Mountain
IUCN IINational Park
125.50 km² overlap
Rocky Mountain National Park
IUCN IbWilderness Area
124.48 km² overlap
Comanche Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
117.86 km² overlap
Neota
IUCN IbWilderness
38.65 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
38.36 km² overlap
Rawah
IUCN IbWilderness
27.88 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
12.68 km² overlap
Cache La Poudre
IUCN IbWilderness
8.45 km² overlap
Reservoir
0.82 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Reserve Program
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 820 distinct species · 62 122 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Cache la Poudre River : 31 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
1,0°C
Annual rain
583mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
61mm/an
PET
789mm
AET
472mm
Mean slope
12,6°
Water table
760cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)