Wilderness Study Area · usa
Parunuweap Canyon
- Area
- 125 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1980
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1980
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
211 distinct species · 520 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 55 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 Parunuweap Canyon : 40 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.1%, 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).
Hydrology2 basins · 0 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
43,4km
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 053km²
Discharge in basins
0,2m³/s
Mean precip.
391mm/an
Mean T°
9,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,68
Max snow
24%
Mean runoff
55mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 910m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- East Fork Virgin Riverord 3len here19.25 km21%total90 km
- Meadow Creekord 2len here8.85 km13%total68 km
- Mineral Gulchord 3len here3.89 km100%total4 km
- Miners Gulchord 3len here3.33 km20%total17 km
- Poverty Washord 1len here3.03 km100%total3 km
- Rock Canyonord 2len here3.00 km4%total72 km
- Bay Bill Canyonord 1len here1.16 km100%total1 km
- Fat Man's Miseryord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Crawford Washord 3len here0.25 km2%total11 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
- 37.18385, -112.76100
- 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.