HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080571390
Bassin de Tongue 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 3 administrative regions : Delta, Mesa, Montrose
Sub-basin area
1 002,4km²
Upstream area
14 617km²
Discharge
72,82m³/s
Mean elev.
2 168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Delta963.4 km²96.0% of basin
- 21.2 km²2.1% of basin
- 18.6 km²1.9% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Gunnison Gorge
IUCN VNational Conservation Area
83.50 km² overlap
Laurita
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
4.17 km² overlap
Adobe Badlands
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
3.50 km² overlap
McCary
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.40 km² overlap
Starner
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.81 km² overlap
Herrick (Gunnison River Farms)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.65 km² overlap
Shea
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.49 km² overlap
Chick
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.29 km² overlap
W & W Land Co. LLC (Walker)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.17 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hamilton
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.94 km² overlap
Dumler
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.94 km² overlap
City Slickers Land Company LLC
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.71 km² overlap
Galinat
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.60 km² overlap
Lauderbach
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.35 km² overlap
Sanders
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.27 km² overlap
Stewart
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Smith, J.
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
Jardon A&R
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Littlefield
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.11 km² overlap
Gunnison Gorge
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.09 km² overlap
Buy Right Products, Inc.
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Parker & Wild / Colorado Wetlands Initiative Legacy
IUCN Not AssignedWetlands
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 131 distinct species · 83 109 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Tongue Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
410mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
117mm/an
PET
1 105mm
AET
342mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
422cm
Forest
60%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)