HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080566850
Bassin de Gunnison 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 2 administrative regions : Delta, Mesa
Sub-basin area
174,7km²
Upstream area
19 793,4km²
Discharge
88,81m³/s
Mean elev.
1 790m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Dominguez Creek436 km²
- Bassin de Gunnison River184 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 173.8 km²99.4% of basin
- Delta1.0 km²0.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Dominguez/Escalante
IUCN VNational Conservation Area
97.78 km² overlap
Dominguez Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
21.50 km² overlap
Dominguez
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
520 distinct species · 12 379 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Gunnison River : 22 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.5%, 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
301mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
92mm/an
PET
1 202mm
AET
259mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
709cm
Forest
15%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)