HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080577810
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 2 administrative regions : Gunnison, Saguache
Sub-basin area
952,5km²
Upstream area
6 330km²
Discharge
37,92m³/s
Mean elev.
2 773m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Taylor River2626 km²
- Bassin de Tomichi Creek226 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 708.5 km²74.3% of basin
- 244.7 km²25.7% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
West Elk
IUCN IbWilderness
76.51 km² overlap
Gunnison
IUCN VEasement
6.85 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.30 km² overlap
Shultz Subdivision
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.03 km² overlap
Blinberry Gulch
IUCN Not AssignedState Wildlife Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 388 distinct species · 136 234 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 18.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
1,4°C
Annual rain
458mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
183mm/an
PET
924mm
AET
387mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
414cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)