National Recreation Area · usa
Lake Mead
- Area
- 5 228 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1936
Overview
- Designation
- National Recreation Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1936
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 794 distinct species · 210 711 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Lake Mead : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.2%, 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).
Hydrology22 basins · 2 lakes · 52 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
997,8km
Lake surface here
675,68km²
Basins crossed
22
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
427 397km²
Discharge in basins
2 773,9m³/s
Mean precip.
173mm/an
Mean T°
18,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,88
Max snow
5%
Mean runoff
11mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
826m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 270,6 km²overlap797.44 km²15%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 024,9 km²overlap649.55 km²12%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area2 122,6 km²overlap543.89 km²10%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 122 km²overlap519.54 km²10%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area593,8 km²overlap513.63 km²10%
- Bassin de Echo Washsub-area1 116 km²overlap471.53 km²9%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area359,5 km²overlap302.37 km²6%
- Bassin de Parashant Canyonsub-area933,3 km²overlap202.19 km²4%
- Bassin de Detrital Washsub-area1 817,4 km²overlap201.93 km²4%
13 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area2 396,3 km²overlap168.77 km²3%
- Bassin de Las Vegas Washsub-area729,2 km²overlap164.36 km²3%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area134,6 km²overlap124.08 km²2%
- Bassin de Grand Washsub-area2 564,5 km²overlap121.10 km²2%
- Basin #49750sub-area181,6 km²overlap94.62 km²2%
- Bassin de Muddy Riversub-area863,1 km²overlap67.12 km²1%
- Bassin de Virgin Riversub-area1 212,2 km²overlap66.01 km²1%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area684,6 km²overlap65.82 km²1%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area45,4 km²overlap45.43 km²1%
- Basin #75370sub-area1 372,9 km²overlap40.49 km²1%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area392,1 km²overlap31.30 km²1%
- Bassin de Milkweek Canyonsub-area668,6 km²overlap24.07 km²0%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area577,9 km²overlap12.91 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (52, ord ≥ 4)
- Colorado Riverord 8len here508.10 km14%total3561 km
- Virgin Riverord 6len here66.54 km14%total492 km
- Snap Canyonord 2len here29.55 km65%total46 km
- Grapevine Washord 4len here27.06 km31%total87 km
- Parashant Canyonord 3len here20.47 km30%total69 km
- Trail Rapids Washord 2len here19.88 km71%total28 km
- Calico Washord 2len here17.48 km100%total17 km
- Whitmore Washord 3len here15.55 km55%total28 km
- Las Vegas Washord 5len here14.60 km8%total180 km
- Echo Washord 3len here13.87 km40%total35 km
- Hualapai Washord 3len here13.84 km40%total35 km
- Tassi Washord 3len here13.65 km47%total29 km
40 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Callville Washord 3len here11.77 km100%total12 km
- Gypsum Washord 5len here11.51 km34%total34 km
- Green Spring Canyonord 2len here11.46 km34%total34 km
- Pigeon Washord 4len here10.20 km47%total22 km
- Lime Washord 6len here10.19 km46%total22 km
- Muddy Riverord 5len here10.10 km12%total87 km
- Cottonwood Washord 6len here10.07 km2%total601 km
- Lost Creekord 2len here9.51 km21%total45 km
- North Fork Valley of Fire Washord 2len here8.58 km65%total13 km
- Andrus Canyonord 2len here8.56 km32%total27 km
- Lovell Washord 2len here7.88 km66%total12 km
- Gregg Washord 1len here7.77 km100%total8 km
- West End Washord 2len here7.56 km100%total8 km
- Catclaw Washord 1len here7.52 km87%total9 km
- Spring Canyonord 2len here7.35 km13%total55 km
- Azure Ridge Draword 4len here6.98 km63%total11 km
- Cataract Washord 2len here6.76 km48%total14 km
- Rattlesnake Washord 2len here6.60 km13%total51 km
- Wild Burro Washord 2len here5.77 km100%total6 km
- Meriwhitica Canyonord 2len here5.54 km17%total32 km
- Hemenway Washord 1len here5.43 km99%total5 km
- Cleopatra Washord 1len here5.21 km100%total5 km
- Reference Point Creekord 2len here5.18 km20%total25 km
- Connoly Washord 1len here5.06 km79%total6 km
- Garden Washord 1len here4.97 km39%total13 km
- Grand Washord 4len here4.83 km5%total93 km
- Gyp Washord 1len here4.74 km54%total9 km
- Eldorado Washord 2len here4.23 km41%total10 km
- Kingman Washord 1len here4.01 km100%total4 km
- Granite Park Canyonord 2len here3.77 km15%total25 km
- One Hundred and Ninetythree Mile Creekord 2len here3.49 km32%total11 km
- Burro Spring Washord 1len here3.47 km100%total3 km
- Government Washord 1len here2.79 km27%total10 km
- Price Canyonord 1len here2.46 km33%total8 km
- Boulder Washord 1len here2.42 km100%total2 km
- White Elephant Washord 1len here1.39 km10%total14 km
- Borax Washord 1len here1.23 km23%total5 km
- Manganese Washord 1len here0.56 km100%total1 km
- Cave Canyonord 4len here0.24 km1%total46 km
- Dansill Canyonord 1len here≈ tangenttotal5 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
- 35.88152, -114.69006
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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.