HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080609090
Bassin de Lime 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 1 administrative regions : San Juan
Sub-basin area
364,5km²
Upstream area
58 740,8km²
Discharge
89,33m³/s
Mean elev.
1 561m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Walker Creek1218 km²
- Bassin de Comb Wash9 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San JuanUtah · United States364.7 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Road Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
105.96 km² overlap
National Monument
2.80 km² overlap
Inholding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
2.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
451 distinct species · 6 425 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Lime Creek : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 117 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 321mm
AET
189mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
1 132cm
Forest
4%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)