HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080580860
Bassin de Sweetwater 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 2 administrative regions : Garfield, Wayne
Sub-basin area
496,2km²
Upstream area
496,2km²
Discharge
0,26m³/s
Mean elev.
1 841m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GarfieldUtah · United States274.4 km²55.3% of basin
- WayneUtah · United States222.1 km²44.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mt. Ellen-Blue Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
218.88 km² overlap
Inholding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
18.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
549 distinct species · 3 674 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Sweetwater Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 18.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
10,0°C
Annual rain
218mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 210mm
AET
189mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
1 002cm
Forest
9%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)