HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080532170
Bassin de South Platte 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 2 administrative regions : Morgan, Weld
Sub-basin area
189,5km²
Upstream area
31 828,7km²
Discharge
33,85m³/s
Mean elev.
1 377m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riverside Canal362 km²
- Bassin de Empire Intake Canal122 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 110.4 km²58.2% of basin
- Morgan79.4 km²41.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Us-Co-116-1
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
363 distinct species · 7 415 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Platte River : 30 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.8%, 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
343mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 237mm
AET
295mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
227cm
Forest
2%
Crops
44%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)