HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080540180
Bassin de Muddy Creek
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 3 administrative regions : Grand, Jackson, Routt
Sub-basin area
805,9km²
Upstream area
806km²
Discharge
2,11m³/s
Mean elev.
2 616m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Grand777.3 km²96.3% of basin
- 22.8 km²2.8% of basin
- Jackson6.7 km²0.8% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Hill Ranch SHA
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
9.26 km² overlap
Sarvis Creek
IUCN IbWilderness
1.18 km² overlap
Silver Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.76 km² overlap
Perkins Place SWA - RFP - Perkins Place SWA - RFP
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.36 km² overlap
Troublesome
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
912 distinct species · 14 605 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Muddy Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.8%, 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°
2,0°C
Annual rain
463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
89mm/an
PET
911mm
AET
398mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
267cm
Forest
70%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)