HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080573040
Bassin de Salt Wash
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 : Grand
Sub-basin area
476,9km²
Upstream area
476,9km²
Discharge
0,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 498m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GrandUtah · United States477.3 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Arches
IUCN IINational Park
193.68 km² overlap
Lost Spring Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
6.58 km² overlap
Coal Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
2.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
876 distinct species · 22 761 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Salt Wash : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 122 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
245mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 293mm
AET
211mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
1 180cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)