HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080577800
Bassin de Gunnison River
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 : Gunnison
Sub-basin area
73km²
Upstream area
7 420km²
Discharge
44,12m³/s
Mean elev.
2 577m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cebolla Creek1017 km²
- Bassin de Gunnison River953 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gunnison
IUCN VEasement
6.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
335 distinct species · 2 121 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Gunnison River : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 128 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
2,6°C
Annual rain
413mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
996mm
AET
355mm
Mean slope
11,5°
Water table
526cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)