HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080568640
Bassin de Colorado 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 : Grand, Mesa
Sub-basin area
771km²
Upstream area
49 410,5km²
Discharge
218,72m³/s
Mean elev.
1 636m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Dolores River682 km²
- Bassin de Colorado River532 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GrandUtah · United States637.2 km²82.6% of basin
- 134.4 km²17.4% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Coal Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
28.75 km² overlap
Westwater Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
11.48 km² overlap
Pinon Mesa - Glade Point SHA
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
10.48 km² overlap
Inholding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.20 km² overlap
Data not available
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
557 distinct species · 6 928 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Colorado River : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.0%, 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°
10,3°C
Annual rain
283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
66mm/an
PET
1 240mm
AET
243mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
822cm
Forest
18%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)