HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080571410
Bassin de Wild Horse 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 : Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln
Sub-basin area
481km²
Upstream area
481km²
Discharge
0,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 433m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Cheyenne458.3 km²95.2% of basin
- 22.0 km²4.6% of basin
- Lincoln1.2 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
276 distinct species · 3 692 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 Wild Horse Creek : 27 espèces reliées par 121 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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
376mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 240mm
AET
322mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
842cm
Forest
1%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)