HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080561310
Bassin de Cottonwood 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 2 administrative regions : Emery, Sanpete
Sub-basin area
870,3km²
Upstream area
870,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
2 433m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- EmeryUtah · United States655.2 km²75.2% of basin
- SanpeteUtah · United States215.8 km²24.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Upper San Rafael River
IUCN VState Wildlife Area
0.75 km² overlap
Castle Dale
IUCN VState Wildlife Area
0.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 094 distinct species · 9 645 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Cottonwood Creek : 30 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
4,6°C
Annual rain
399mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
954mm
AET
340mm
Mean slope
11,2°
Water table
794cm
Forest
45%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)