Wilderness Area · usa
Owyhee River
- Area
- 1 097 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2009
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2009
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
412 distinct species · 809 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Owyhee River : 17 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology12 basins · 1 lakes · 6 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
214,6km
Lake surface here
0,02km²
Basins crossed
12
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
12 881km²
Discharge in basins
23,7m³/s
Mean precip.
315mm/an
Mean T°
6,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,71
Max snow
26%
Mean runoff
65mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 628m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de South Fork Owyhee Riversub-area197,6 km²overlap166.72 km²15%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area374,8 km²overlap157.07 km²14%
- Bassin de South Fork Owyhee Riversub-area446,4 km²overlap152.95 km²14%
- Bassin de Dry Creeksub-area679,2 km²overlap140.18 km²13%
- Bassin de Little Owyhee Riversub-area2 189,7 km²overlap120.17 km²11%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area264,2 km²overlap105.58 km²10%
- Bassin de Deep Creeksub-area1 160 km²overlap85.74 km²8%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area832,4 km²overlap84.50 km²8%
- Bassin de Owyhee Riversub-area240,6 km²overlap71.86 km²7%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (6, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 42.28776, -116.54514
- Open in maps
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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.