HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080530080
Bassin de Larimer County Canal
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 2 administrative regions : Larimer, Weld
Sub-basin area
942,5km²
Upstream area
4 932,7km²
Discharge
5,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 514m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Boxelder Creek755 km²
- Bassin de Spring Creek91 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 707.2 km²74.9% of basin
- 236.4 km²25.1% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Coyote Ridge
IUCN VCity Natural Area
4.92 km² overlap
Coyote Ridge
IUCN VNatural Area
4.82 km² overlap
City Natural Area
3.83 km² overlap
Frank
IUCN Not AssignedState Wildlife Area
1.32 km² overlap
Cathy Fromme Prairie
IUCN VNatural Area
1.15 km² overlap
Arapaho Bend
IUCN VCity Natural Area
1.12 km² overlap
Fossil Creek
IUCN VWetlands
0.89 km² overlap
Colina Mariposa
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.84 km² overlap
Hazaleus
IUCN VNatural Area
0.66 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hazaleus
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.66 km² overlap
Three Bells I
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.65 km² overlap
Pelican Marsh
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.64 km² overlap
Pelican Marsh
IUCN VNatural Area
0.64 km² overlap
Colina Mariposa
IUCN VNatural Area
0.60 km² overlap
City Natural Area
0.56 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.56 km² overlap
City Natural Area
0.54 km² overlap
Dickinson Tdu
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.49 km² overlap
Running Deer
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.49 km² overlap
Running Deer
IUCN VNatural Area
0.49 km² overlap
Vangbo
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.43 km² overlap
Poudre River Ranch
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.35 km² overlap
Eagle View
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.35 km² overlap
Eagle View
IUCN VNatural Area
0.35 km² overlap
Prairie Dog Meadow
IUCN VCity Natural Area
0.34 km² overlap
Running Deer
IUCN VEnvironmental System
0.32 km² overlap
Fossil Creek Reservoir
IUCN VNatural Area
0.29 km² overlap
Running Deer Natural Area Acquisition / Cache la Poudre-Big Thompson
IUCN Not AssignedNatural Area
0.27 km² overlap
Poudre Learning Center
IUCN VCity Nature Center/Preserve
0.25 km² overlap
Topminnow
IUCN VNatural Area
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 721 distinct species · 622 566 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Larimer County Canal : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 19.8%, 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
358mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 162mm
AET
309mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
274cm
Forest
11%
Crops
43%
Urban
13%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)