HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080576750
Bassin de Cochetopa 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 : Gunnison, Mineral, Saguache
Sub-basin area
1 010,8km²
Upstream area
1 010,9km²
Discharge
5,38m³/s
Mean elev.
3 053m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 972.4 km²96.1% of basin
- 39.0 km²3.9% of basin
- Mineral0.1 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
La Garita
IUCN IbWilderness
105.12 km² overlap
Cochetopa
IUCN Not AssignedState Wildlife Area
27.19 km² overlap
Cochetopa Creek Ranch
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.59 km² overlap
Cochetopa Creek Ranch Amended
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.79 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
714 distinct species · 6 857 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Cochetopa Creek : 19 espèces reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 20.3%, 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°
0,4°C
Annual rain
565mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
167mm/an
PET
841mm
AET
451mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
355cm
Forest
87%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)