HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080666630
Bassin de Little 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 : Apache, Navajo
Sub-basin area
540,8km²
Upstream area
17 447,5km²
Discharge
5,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 709m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 493.4 km²91.3% of basin
- 47.3 km²8.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Petrified Forest
IUCN IINational Park
17.65 km² overlap
Wilderness Area
7.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
288 distinct species · 1 245 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Little Colorado River : 24 espèces reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.2%, 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°
11,8°C
Annual rain
281mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 407mm
AET
238mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
577cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)