HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080656700
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 : Clark, Mohave
Sub-basin area
1 122km²
Upstream area
426 705,6km²
Discharge
507,36m³/s
Mean elev.
597m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Colorado River1025 km²
- Bassin · #7080649750182 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 779.3 km²69.5% of basin
- Clark342.7 km²30.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Lake Mead
IUCN VNational Recreation Area
519.54 km² overlap
Spirit Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
133.24 km² overlap
Nellis Wash
IUCN IbWilderness Area
27.27 km² overlap
Bridge Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
23.38 km² overlap
Mount Nutt
IUCN IbWilderness Area
19.39 km² overlap
Spirit Mountian
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 116 distinct species · 45 112 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.8%, 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
136mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 543mm
AET
115mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
719cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)