HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080523500
Bassin de South Fork 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 1 administrative regions : Larimer
Sub-basin area
262,1km²
Upstream area
262,3km²
Discharge
0,26m³/s
Mean elev.
2 960m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 262.4 km²100.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Comanche Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
128.78 km² overlap
Pennock Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
23.71 km² overlap
Rocky Mountain National Park
IUCN IbWilderness Area
17.76 km² overlap
Rocky Mountain
IUCN IINational Park
17.75 km² overlap
Cache La Poudre
IUCN IbWilderness
13.29 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
9.15 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
7.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 445 distinct species · 15 196 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 South Fork Cache la Poudre River : 36 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.0%, 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°
1,0°C
Annual rain
584mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
782mm
AET
475mm
Mean slope
13,3°
Water table
717cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
62%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)