HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080555730

Bassin de Middle Fork South Platte 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 8 administrative regions : Chaffee, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Lake +3

6% lakePfafstetter: 74294699

Sub-basin area

5 466,7km²

Upstream area

5 466,7km²

Discharge

5,21m³/s

Mean elev.

2 859m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cherry Creek3850 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Park
Colorado · United States
4139.5 km²
75.7% of basin
Teller
Colorado · United States
638.9 km²
11.7% of basin
Douglas
Colorado · United States
380.3 km²
7.0% of basin
Jefferson
Colorado · United States
286.2 km²
5.2% of basin
El Paso
Colorado · United States
10.3 km²
0.2% of basin
Summit
Colorado · United States
7.8 km²
0.1% of basin
Chaffee
Colorado · United States
5.7 km²
0.1% of basin
Lake
Colorado · United States
2.7 km²
0.1% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Lost Creek
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
291.86 km² overlap
Buffalo Peaks
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
80.34 km² overlap
Antero
IUCN V
Non-Governmental Lands
49.35 km² overlap
Cheesman
IUCN V
Non-Governmental Lands
34.04 km² overlap
Florissant Fossil Beds
IUCN V
National Monument
25.35 km² overlap
Paris Patent Group
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
22.90 km² overlap
Tarryall Creek Ranch
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
7.59 km² overlap
South
IUCN V
Non-Governmental Lands
7.44 km² overlap
South Park
IUCN V
Easement
6.73 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

63 Ranch State Wildlife Areas 2
IUCN V
State Wildlife Area
5.97 km² overlap
Elk Valley Estates SHA
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
5.53 km² overlap
South Platte River
IUCN V
Non-Governmental Lands
4.56 km² overlap
High Creek Fen
IUCN V
Preserve
4.54 km² overlap
Collins (Golden Goose Holding LLC)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
3.30 km² overlap
Heskett (Bristlecone View Horizon LLC)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
3.13 km² overlap
Heskett - South (Bristlecone View Horizon LLC - South)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.62 km² overlap
Tarryall Mountain Ranch LLC
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.57 km² overlap
Woodbury LLLP (Woodbury)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
2.46 km² overlap
Badger Basin
IUCN Not Assigned
State Wildlife Area
2.02 km² overlap
Hart Ranch (Phase 1) / South Park Basin Legacy
IUCN Not Assigned
Park
2.00 km² overlap
Saddle Mountain
IUCN Ia
Research Natural Area
1.95 km² overlap
Hoosier Ridge
IUCN Ia
Research Natural Area
1.57 km² overlap
Hart
IUCN V
Preserve
1.43 km² overlap
Lost
IUCN V
Non-Governmental Lands
1.22 km² overlap
Markus Ranch 2
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
1.22 km² overlap
Spinney Mountain SWA - Lundy Property
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.19 km² overlap
Chiwawa Mines Conservation Easements / South Park Basin Legacy
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.06 km² overlap
Park County Shooting Range Easement
IUCN Not Assigned
State Wildlife Area
0.78 km² overlap
Carey Ranch
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.65 km² overlap
Badger Basin State Wildlife Area 1
IUCN Not Assigned
State Wildlife Area
0.63 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

5 944 distinct species · 357 578 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Middle Fork South Platte River : 33 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.115

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

1,7°C

Annual rain

452mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,46

Runoff

50mm/an

PET

872mm

AET

384mm

Mean slope

7,8°

Water table

599cm

Forest

76%

Crops

Urban

Protected

12%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)