HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080579440
Bassin de Muddy 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 4 administrative regions : Emery, Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne
Sub-basin area
4 030,2km²
Upstream area
4 030,3km²
Discharge
2,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 964m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- EmeryUtah · United States2424.1 km²60.1% of basin
- SevierUtah · United States998.3 km²24.8% of basin
- WayneUtah · United States460.4 km²11.4% of basin
- SanpeteUtah · United States150.5 km²3.7% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
Muddy Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Area
446.25 km² overlap
Little Ocean Draw
IUCN IbWilderness Area
92.72 km² overlap
Lower Last Chance
IUCN IbWilderness Area
87.54 km² overlap
Big Wild Horse Mesa
IUCN IbWilderness Area
81.54 km² overlap
Red's Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
78.68 km² overlap
Capitol Reef
IUCN IINational Park
78.15 km² overlap
Middle Wild Horse Mesa
IUCN IbWilderness Area
70.98 km² overlap
Horse Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
58.97 km² overlap
Devil's Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
35.50 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Little Wild Horse Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
25.25 km² overlap
Nelson Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
13.57 km² overlap
Old Woman Cove
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
10.02 km² overlap
Nelson Mountain
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.82 km² overlap
Eagle Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 841 distinct species · 18 191 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Muddy Creek : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 150 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 25 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°
8,2°C
Annual rain
237mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 155mm
AET
206mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
1 046cm
Forest
13%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)