HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080597400
Bassin de Horse Canyon
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 1 administrative regions : Garfield
Sub-basin area
824,2km²
Upstream area
2 555,7km²
Discharge
1,14m³/s
Mean elev.
1 882m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sand Creek463 km²
- Bassin de Deer Creek453 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GarfieldUtah · United States824.6 km²100.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
National Monument
391.96 km² overlap
Wilderness Study Area
299.87 km² overlap
Steep Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
64.93 km² overlap
Capitol Reef
IUCN IINational Park
16.91 km² overlap
Escalante Canyons Tract 1
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
991 distinct species · 15 101 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Horse Canyon : 14 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
225mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 183mm
AET
196mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
1 124cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)