Wilderness · usa
La Garita
- Area
- 512 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1964
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1964
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
491 distinct species · 2 527 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 La Garita : 28 espèces reliées par 120 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.1%, 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).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 20 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
77,5km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 981km²
Discharge in basins
3,3m³/s
Mean precip.
605mm/an
Mean T°
0,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,25
Max snow
47%
Mean runoff
163mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
3 084m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Cebolla Creeksub-area1 017 km²overlap204.97 km²40%
- Bassin de Cochetopa Creeksub-area1 010,8 km²overlap105.12 km²21%
- Bassin de Rio Grandesub-area946 km²overlap104.98 km²21%
- Bassin de Saquache Creeksub-area1 933,6 km²overlap96.68 km²19%
- Bassin de North Clear Creeksub-area366,3 km²overlap0.10 km²0%
Rivers / streams (20, ord ≥ 4)
- Cochetopa Creekord 4len here12.85 km19%total68 km
- West Bellows Creekord 2len here9.08 km80%total11 km
- East Mineral Creekord 1len here8.60 km78%total11 km
- Rough Creekord 1len here7.91 km100%total8 km
- Middle Fork Saguache Creekord 2len here7.38 km42%total18 km
- East Bellows Creekord 2len here6.43 km44%total15 km
- Cebolla Creekord 3len here5.85 km14%total43 km
- Twin Peaks Creekord 1len here4.82 km100%total5 km
- Stewart Creekord 1len here4.16 km92%total5 km
- Spring Creekord 4len here3.19 km1%total316 km
- Whale Creekord 2len here2.24 km100%total2 km
- Lake Fork Cochetopa Creekord 1len here2.21 km100%total2 km
8 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- West Fork Cebolla Creekord 2len here0.71 km9%total8 km
- Mill Creekord 3len here0.70 km1%total112 km
- Brush Creekord 4len here0.61 km0%total148 km
- Nutras Creekord 1len here0.42 km7%total6 km
- Wannamaker Creekord 1len here0.27 km5%total6 km
- South Fork Saguache Creekord 2len here0.10 km1%total9 km
- Calf Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal14 km
- East Fork Cebolla Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal1 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 37.93338, -106.77821
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.