HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080525310
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 1 administrative regions : Larimer
Sub-basin area
238,3km²
Upstream area
2 958,9km²
Discharge
3,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 761m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dale Creek1475 km²
- Bassin de Cache la Poudre River191 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 238.5 km²100.0% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Reservoir Ridge
IUCN VNatural Area
1.73 km² overlap
Legacy Land Trust
IUCN VEnvironmental System
1.46 km² overlap
Williams
IUCN VEnvironmental System
1.40 km² overlap
Reservoir Ridge
IUCN VCity Natural Area
1.27 km² overlap
Maxwell
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.64 km² overlap
Andrijeski
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.64 km² overlap
Rim Rock
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.48 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.18 km² overlap
McMurry Natural Area Annex
IUCN Not AssignedNatural Area
0.14 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Butterfly Woods
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.10 km² overlap
McMurry
IUCN VNatural Area
0.07 km² overlap
North Shields
IUCN VPond
0.04 km² overlap
Magpie Meander
IUCN VEnvironmental System
0.03 km² overlap
Magpie Meander
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.02 km² overlap
Pineridge
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 676 distinct species · 258 343 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, 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°
8,0°C
Annual rain
379mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
1 092mm
AET
328mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
606cm
Forest
57%
Crops
14%
Urban
4%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)