HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080583000
Bassin de Fountain 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 : Douglas, El Paso, Pueblo, Teller
Sub-basin area
2 426,1km²
Upstream area
2 426,1km²
Discharge
1,62m³/s
Mean elev.
2 068m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- El Paso2025.8 km²83.4% of basin
- 292.8 km²12.1% of basin
- 108.0 km²4.4% of basin
- Douglas1.4 km²0.1% of basin
20 intersecting protected areas
Arkansas Valley
IUCN VConservation Easement
18.06 km² overlap
Frost Ranch East
IUCN VConservation Easement
6.58 km² overlap
Arkansas Valley
IUCN VEasement
4.61 km² overlap
Manitou Section 16
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.58 km² overlap
Barr Farm
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.34 km² overlap
Hanna Ranch
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.09 km² overlap
Hurricane Canyon
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
2.08 km² overlap
Stratton
IUCN Not AssignedOpen Space
1.29 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.25 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Watershed Protection
0.80 km² overlap
Red Mountain
IUCN Not AssignedOpen Space
0.39 km² overlap
Christian
IUCN Not AssignedOpen Space
0.32 km² overlap
Cross Creek
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.24 km² overlap
Jimmy Camp Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Tudor Trail & Greenway
IUCN Not AssignedOpen Space
0.13 km² overlap
Rock Island
IUCN VCorridor
0.10 km² overlap
Mesa
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.08 km² overlap
Sinton Pond
IUCN Not AssignedOpen Space
0.05 km² overlap
E-95-1
IUCN VLocal Land Trust Lands
0.03 km² overlap
E-84-1
IUCN VLocal Land Trust Lands
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 161 distinct species · 1 861 122 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Fountain Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
7,4°C
Annual rain
436mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 100mm
AET
374mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
664cm
Forest
45%
Crops
7%
Urban
19%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)