HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080689450
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 1 administrative regions : Gila
Sub-basin area
237,2km²
Upstream area
10 536,7km²
Discharge
5,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 173m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cherry Creek730 km²
- Bassin de Salt River406 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 237.1 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Salt River Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness
56.48 km² overlap
Sierra Ancha
IUCN IbWilderness
16.77 km² overlap
Sierra Ancha
IUCN VExperimental Forest
2.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
662 distinct species · 1 875 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
16,2°C
Annual rain
482mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 492mm
AET
408mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
663cm
Forest
62%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)