HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080611010
Bassin de Colorado 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 : Coconino, Kane, San Juan
Sub-basin area
1 135,7km²
Upstream area
273 392,8km²
Discharge
558,86m³/s
Mean elev.
1 524m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de San Juan River299 km²
- Bassin de Colorado River106 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KaneUtah · United States458.8 km²40.4% of basin
- San JuanUtah · United States374.3 km²32.9% of basin
- 303.0 km²26.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Fiftymile Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
125.13 km² overlap
National Monument
69.50 km² overlap
Rainbow Bridge
IUCN IIINational Monument
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 374 distinct species · 42 690 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Colorado River : 5 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 44.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
13,0°C
Annual rain
148mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 294mm
AET
128mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
995cm
Forest
10%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)