HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080585180
Bassin de Pleasant Valley 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 3 administrative regions : Montrose, Ouray, San Miguel
Sub-basin area
263,8km²
Upstream area
263,8km²
Discharge
1,07m³/s
Mean elev.
2 800m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 255.1 km²96.6% of basin
- 4.4 km²1.7% of basin
- San Miguel4.4 km²1.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mount Sneffels
IUCN IbWilderness
26.09 km² overlap
West Dalla Creek
IUCN VEasement
3.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
488 distinct species · 8 441 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Pleasant Valley Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
3,0°C
Annual rain
623mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
136mm/an
PET
958mm
AET
496mm
Mean slope
11,6°
Water table
503cm
Forest
52%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)