HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080585120
Bassin de Salt 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 : San Juan, Wayne
Sub-basin area
425,9km²
Upstream area
67 936,5km²
Discharge
256,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 656m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Indian Creek1199 km²
- Bassin de Colorado River676 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San JuanUtah · United States426.1 km²100.0% of basin
- WayneUtah · United States0.1 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Canyonlands
IUCN IINational Park
346.25 km² overlap
Butler Wash
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
33.78 km² overlap
Indian Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
5.75 km² overlap
National Monument
5.52 km² overlap
Inholding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
2.60 km² overlap
South Needles
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
964 distinct species · 14 844 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Salt Creek : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 117 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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°
11,0°C
Annual rain
260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 275mm
AET
223mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
1 176cm
Forest
5%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)