HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080544810
Bassin de West Bijou 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 4 administrative regions : Adams, Arapahoe, El Paso, Elbert
Sub-basin area
884,6km²
Upstream area
884,7km²
Discharge
0,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Elbert599.0 km²67.7% of basin
- 153.4 km²17.3% of basin
- Adams76.8 km²8.7% of basin
- El Paso56.2 km²6.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
West Bijou Site - Fee
IUCN VNon-Governmental Preserve
23.22 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.69 km² overlap
Hoenig
IUCN Not AssignedWildlife Sanctuary
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
719 distinct species · 33 873 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 West Bijou Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
393mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 154mm
AET
338mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
426cm
Forest
6%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)