HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080578350
Bassin de Cimarron 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 4 administrative regions : Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray
Sub-basin area
592,4km²
Upstream area
592,4km²
Discharge
2,63m³/s
Mean elev.
2 938m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 311.9 km²52.6% of basin
- 194.4 km²32.8% of basin
- 84.9 km²14.3% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Uncompahgre
IUCN IbWilderness
112.96 km² overlap
Perrin
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.49 km² overlap
Hawk
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
923 distinct species · 9 167 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Cimarron River : 27 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
1,6°C
Annual rain
593mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
898mm
AET
464mm
Mean slope
13,9°
Water table
575cm
Forest
71%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)