Wilderness Area · usa
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs
- Area
- 451 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 241 distinct species · 21 959 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs : 11 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 19.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 10 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
121,7km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
283 293km²
Discharge in basins
151,8m³/s
Mean precip.
243mm/an
Mean T°
10,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,80
Max snow
8%
Mean runoff
35mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 735m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area545,9 km²overlap143.79 km²32%
- Bassin de Buckskin Gulchsub-area1 243,2 km²overlap119.08 km²26%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area398,4 km²overlap98.96 km²22%
- Bassin de House Rock Washsub-area790,1 km²overlap57.68 km²13%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area657,7 km²overlap20.02 km²4%
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area288,5 km²overlap11.01 km²2%
- Basin #84190sub-area59,9 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Rivers / streams (10, ord ≥ 4)
- Paria Riverord 5len here67.73 km33%total206 km
- Buckskin Gulchord 4len here39.11 km45%total88 km
- Judd Holloword 1len here4.13 km67%total6 km
- Badger Canyon Creekord 2len here3.00 km30%total10 km
- House Rock Washord 3len here2.50 km3%total78 km
- Emmett Washord 1len here2.29 km22%total10 km
- North Larkum Canyonord 2len here2.18 km28%total8 km
- Soap Creekord 2len here0.75 km2%total37 km
- Pine Hollow Canyonord 1len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
- Coyote Washord 4len here≈ tangenttotal295 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
- 36.88354, -111.63349
- 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.