HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080544890
Bassin de East 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
1 558,9km²
Upstream area
1 558,9km²
Discharge
0,97m³/s
Mean elev.
1 724m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Elbert1144.4 km²73.3% of basin
- 335.4 km²21.5% of basin
- Adams78.9 km²5.1% of basin
- El Paso1.6 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Big Sandy
IUCN VEasement
81.05 km² overlap
East Bijou Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
645 distinct species · 29 521 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 East Bijou Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.5%, 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
381mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 170mm
AET
328mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
411cm
Forest
0%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)