HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080570830
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 1 administrative regions : Delta
Sub-basin area
11,8km²
Upstream area
11 106,9km²
Discharge
57,85m³/s
Mean elev.
1 740m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gunnison River519 km²
- Bassin de Grand View Ditch498 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Delta11.8 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Gunnison Gorge
IUCN VNational Conservation Area
10.49 km² overlap
Gunnison Gorge
IUCN IbWilderness Area
3.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
307 distinct species · 2 584 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
290mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 244mm
AET
249mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
883cm
Forest
32%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)