HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080527980

Bassin de Elkhead 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 : Garfield, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt

Pfafstetter: 77296070

Sub-basin area

1 932,9km²

Upstream area

4 781,1km²

Discharge

5,33m³/s

Mean elev.

2 257m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Yampa River162 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Yampa River1639 km²
Bassin de Elk River1209 km²

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Routt
Colorado · United States
1646.8 km²
85.1% of basin
Moffat
Colorado · United States
214.9 km²
11.1% of basin
Rio Blanco
Colorado · United States
71.2 km²
3.7% of basin
Garfield
Colorado · United States
2.3 km²
0.1% of basin

16 intersecting protected areas

Yampa River
IUCN V
Easement
47.37 km² overlap
Wolf Mountain Ranch SHA
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
22.76 km² overlap
Flat Tops
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
22.54 km² overlap
20 Mile Sheep
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
16.75 km² overlap
Carpenter Ranch
IUCN V
Preserve
4.27 km² overlap
Circle 8 Ranch
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.57 km² overlap
Cyprus Yampa Valley
IUCN V
State Habitat Area
2.48 km² overlap
Adobe Ridge State Habitat Area - Frentess II Parcel
IUCN Not Assigned
Habitat Area
2.27 km² overlap
Sage Creek
IUCN V
Easement
0.97 km² overlap

7 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Yampa River
IUCN V
Preserve
0.65 km² overlap
Powers
IUCN V
Preserve
0.38 km² overlap
Yampa River
IUCN V
Preserve
0.38 km² overlap
Yampa River
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.22 km² overlap
Hereford Haven Ranch
IUCN V
State Habitat Area
0.18 km² overlap
Blake
IUCN V
Preserve
0.11 km² overlap
Yampa River
IUCN V
Preserve
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 086 distinct species · 68 380 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 30 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Elkhead Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.170

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

4,1°C

Annual rain

486mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,51

Runoff

68mm/an

PET

1 016mm

AET

415mm

Mean slope

7,8°

Water table

330cm

Forest

79%

Crops

11%

Urban

Protected

12%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)