HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080571330
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 3 administrative regions : Delta, Mesa, Montrose
Sub-basin area
142,9km²
Upstream area
18 441,5km²
Discharge
85,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 764m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Roubideau Creek689 km²
- Bassin de Gunnison River128 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Delta141.8 km²99.1% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Dominguez/Escalante
IUCN VNational Conservation Area
48.49 km² overlap
Adobe Badlands
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
341 distinct species · 2 079 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 120 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
282mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
97mm/an
PET
1 229mm
AET
243mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
662cm
Forest
9%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)