HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080538560
Bassin de White 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 : Moffat, Rio Blanco
Sub-basin area
2 613,9km²
Upstream area
7 241km²
Discharge
19,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 983m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White River1680 km²
- Bassin de White River386 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1509.8 km²57.7% of basin
- 1106.9 km²42.3% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Skull Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
52.68 km² overlap
Yampa River
IUCN VConservation Easement
24.20 km² overlap
Willow Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
19.80 km² overlap
Piceance
IUCN VState Wildlife Area
1.93 km² overlap
Dinosaur
IUCN VNational Monument
0.35 km² overlap
Dinosaur Proposed or Recom
IUCN IbRecommended Wilderness
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
889 distinct species · 8 869 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 White River : 25 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
5,9°C
Annual rain
348mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 115mm
AET
301mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
788cm
Forest
50%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)