HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080615600
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 1 administrative regions : Coconino
Sub-basin area
657,7km²
Upstream area
279 271,3km²
Discharge
549,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 620m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wahweap Creek1198 km²
- Bassin de Antelope Creek590 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 657.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Vermilion Cliffs
IUCN VNational Monument
59.34 km² overlap
Wilderness Area
20.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 142 distinct species · 49 792 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 27 espèces reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
162mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 272mm
AET
142mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
956cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)