HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080602220
Bassin de Sheep 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 : Garfield, Kane
Sub-basin area
265,4km²
Upstream area
265,5km²
Discharge
0,21m³/s
Mean elev.
2 102m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KaneUtah · United States204.9 km²77.2% of basin
- GarfieldUtah · United States60.6 km²22.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bryce Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
44.87 km² overlap
Paria-Hackberry
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
35.45 km² overlap
National Monument
34.78 km² overlap
National Monument
9.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
782 distinct species · 14 937 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Sheep Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
7,3°C
Annual rain
323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
1 148mm
AET
278mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
933cm
Forest
57%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
69%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)