HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080533040
Bassin de Empire Intake 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 1 administrative regions : Weld
Sub-basin area
122,4km²
Upstream area
31 277,5km²
Discharge
34,04m³/s
Mean elev.
1 431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Prospect Lateral974 km²
- Bassin de South Platte River287 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 122.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
377 distinct species · 3 375 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Empire Intake Canal : 26 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
351mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 225mm
AET
302mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
396cm
Forest
0%
Crops
43%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)