HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080591970
Bassin de Dirty Devil River
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 : Emery, Garfield, Wayne
Sub-basin area
2 160,6km²
Upstream area
11 321,2km²
Discharge
5,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 580m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Muddy Creek4030 km²
- Bassin de Fremont River493 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- WayneUtah · United States1470.9 km²68.0% of basin
- GarfieldUtah · United States648.6 km²30.0% of basin
- EmeryUtah · United States42.4 km²2.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Dirty Devil
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
291.12 km² overlap
Fiddler Butte
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
151.37 km² overlap
French Spring-Happy Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
98.42 km² overlap
Bull Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
43.29 km² overlap
Inholding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
22.73 km² overlap
Horseshoe Canyon (South)
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
3.50 km² overlap
Mt. Ellen-Blue Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
744 distinct species · 3 830 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Dirty Devil River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 146 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 306mm
AET
166mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
1 211cm
Forest
1%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)