HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080556530
Bassin de Fryingpan 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 3 administrative regions : Eagle, Lake, Pitkin
Sub-basin area
764,9km²
Upstream area
764,9km²
Discharge
3,82m³/s
Mean elev.
3 088m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 429.1 km²56.0% of basin
- 335.5 km²43.8% of basin
- Lake1.0 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Hunter-Fryingpan
IUCN IbWilderness
156.89 km² overlap
Holy Cross
IUCN IbWilderness
79.41 km² overlap
Mount Massive
IUCN IbWilderness
1.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
970 distinct species · 28 128 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Fryingpan River : 18 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
0,2°C
Annual rain
536mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
789mm
AET
438mm
Mean slope
18,0°
Water table
674cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)