HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080688400
Bassin de Salt 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 : Gila, Maricopa
Sub-basin area
257,4km²
Upstream area
11 916,2km²
Discharge
6,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 059m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pinto Creek493 km²
- Bassin de Salt River97 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 257.2 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Ancha
IUCN VExperimental Forest
39.08 km² overlap
Superstition
IUCN IbWilderness
0.05 km² overlap
Salome
IUCN IbWilderness
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
878 distinct species · 5 652 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Salt River : 37 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
483mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
408mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
502cm
Forest
66%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)