HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080627570
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 2 administrative regions : Coconino, Mohave
Sub-basin area
2 211km²
Upstream area
355 926,4km²
Discharge
528,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 733m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Colorado River1465 km²
- Bassin de Colorado River648 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2211.2 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Grand Canyon National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2041.21 km² overlap
Grand Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
2027.76 km² overlap
Recommended Wilderness
1829.99 km² overlap
Kanab Creek
IUCN IbWilderness
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 326 distinct species · 116 691 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
10,1°C
Annual rain
354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
1 295mm
AET
283mm
Mean slope
20,9°
Water table
749cm
Forest
49%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
92%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)