HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080605100
Bassin de Escalante 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 : Garfield, Kane, San Juan
Sub-basin area
1 337km²
Upstream area
5 243,7km²
Discharge
2,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 548m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KaneUtah · United States999.9 km²74.7% of basin
- GarfieldUtah · United States337.8 km²25.2% of basin
- San JuanUtah · United States0.1 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Scorpion
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
106.60 km² overlap
National Monument
90.19 km² overlap
Fiftymile Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
84.87 km² overlap
Capitol Reef
IUCN IINational Park
3.80 km² overlap
Escalante Canyons Tract 5 I
IUCN IbNo recommendation
3.08 km² overlap
National Monument
1.90 km² overlap
Escalante Canyons Tract 1
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
992 distinct species · 16 330 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Escalante River : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
12,4°C
Annual rain
163mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 288mm
AET
141mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
1 073cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)