HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080538660
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
386,3km²
Upstream area
2 947,5km²
Discharge
8,99m³/s
Mean elev.
2 023m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White River426 km²
- Bassin de White River199 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 386.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Windy Gulch
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
41.51 km² overlap
Black Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
41.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
583 distinct species · 12 850 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 White River : 19 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.0%, 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°
5,4°C
Annual rain
393mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 104mm
AET
339mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
651cm
Forest
75%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)