HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080694150
Bassin de Central Arizona Project Canal
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 : Maricopa, Yavapai
Sub-basin area
2 116,1km²
Upstream area
34 554km²
Discharge
37,33m³/s
Mean elev.
538m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Salt River1141 km²
- Bassin de Rhodes Canyon950 km²
- Bassin de Ashbrook Wash128 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2098.8 km²99.2% of basin
- 16.5 km²0.8% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Sonoran Mountain
IUCN VPreserve
8.43 km² overlap
Local Land Trust Preserve
1.29 km² overlap
Reserve
1.25 km² overlap
Preserve
1.08 km² overlap
Preserve
0.33 km² overlap
Carefree Galloway Wash
IUCN VPreserve
0.04 km² overlap
Preserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 582 distinct species · 2 122 639 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Central Arizona Project Canal : 24 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.0%, 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
294mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
247mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
534cm
Forest
25%
Crops
5%
Urban
53%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)