HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080523560
Bassin de Big Cottonwood 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 4 administrative regions : Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, Wasatch
Sub-basin area
304,6km²
Upstream area
304,7km²
Discharge
2,07m³/s
Mean elev.
2 294m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Salt LakeUtah · United States303.6 km²99.6% of basin
- UtahUtah · United States1.1 km²0.3% of basin
- WasatchUtah · United States0.2 km²0.1% of basin
- SummitUtah · United States0.1 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Twin Peaks
IUCN IbWilderness
46.57 km² overlap
Mount Olympus
IUCN IbWilderness
35.96 km² overlap
Lone Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
20.87 km² overlap
W.F. Mueggler, Butler Fork
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
4.80 km² overlap
Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 995 distinct species · 323 829 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Big Cottonwood Creek : 28 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
5,0°C
Annual rain
761mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
930mm
AET
520mm
Mean slope
18,7°
Water table
713cm
Forest
79%
Crops
2%
Urban
25%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)