HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080576620
Bassin de Tomichi 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 : Chaffee, Gunnison, Saguache
Sub-basin area
1 514,3km²
Upstream area
1 514,4km²
Discharge
6,18m³/s
Mean elev.
2 980m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 956.1 km²63.1% of basin
- 555.8 km²36.7% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.2% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Fossil Ridge
IUCN IbWilderness
17.90 km² overlap
Viking Valley SHA
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
4.58 km² overlap
Gunnison
IUCN VEasement
4.00 km² overlap
Razor Creek Ranch
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.99 km² overlap
Cross Bar-Marshall Creek
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.61 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 428 distinct species · 37 971 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Tomichi Creek : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 22.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
0,7°C
Annual rain
491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
855mm
AET
412mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
426cm
Forest
89%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)