HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080578280

Bassin de Soap 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, Hinsdale, Montrose

8% lakePfafstetter: 77280455

Sub-basin area

914,2km²

Upstream area

9 485,9km²

Discharge

54,36m³/s

Mean elev.

2 940m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Gunnison River519 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Lake Fork Gunnison River1152 km²
Bassin de Gunnison River73 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Gunnison
Colorado · United States
847.8 km²
92.7% of basin
Hinsdale
Colorado · United States
42.3 km²
4.6% of basin
Montrose
Colorado · United States
24.7 km²
2.7% of basin

13 intersecting protected areas

West Elk
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
232.52 km² overlap
Uncompahgre
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
72.22 km² overlap
Blue Creek (Charles Maurer 2013)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
4.26 km² overlap
Blue Creek (Wayne Maurer 2013)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
4.03 km² overlap
Blue Creek (Charles Maurer 2014)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.78 km² overlap
Wayne Maurer 2015
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.77 km² overlap
Mesa Creek (LeValley) A&R
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.65 km² overlap
McLeod C.E. #3
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
1.13 km² overlap
McLeod C.E. #6
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.91 km² overlap

4 more protected areassorted by overlap area

McLeod C.E. #4
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.64 km² overlap
McLeod C.E. #5
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Knott Larry Shane
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.48 km² overlap
Knott Larry Shane Phase Four Property
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.47 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 130 distinct species · 7 453 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 38 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Soap Creek : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 110 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 14.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

110

Connectance

0.141

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

1,1°C

Annual rain

549mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,35

Runoff

163mm/an

PET

879mm

AET

448mm

Mean slope

14,5°

Water table

590cm

Forest

92%

Crops

Urban

Protected

33%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)