HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080690970
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 3 administrative regions : Gila, Maricopa, Pinal
Sub-basin area
1 141km²
Upstream area
16 141km²
Discharge
11,66m³/s
Mean elev.
915m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tonto Creek2721 km²
- Bassin de Cottonwood Creek58 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 980.9 km²86.0% of basin
- 108.2 km²9.5% of basin
- 51.4 km²4.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Superstition
IUCN IbWilderness
390.04 km² overlap
Four Peaks
IUCN IbWilderness
218.49 km² overlap
Research Natural Area
2.69 km² overlap
Wilderness
2.58 km² overlap
Bush Highway
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
1.98 km² overlap
Reserve
1.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 202 distinct species · 122 008 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
18,4°C
Annual rain
470mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 574mm
AET
397mm
Mean slope
12,7°
Water table
757cm
Forest
53%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)