Wilderness Area · usa
Rocky Mountain National Park
- Area
- 1 009 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
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 286 distinct species · 160 117 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Rocky Mountain National Park : 26 espèces reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 2 lakes · 34 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
165,7km
Lake surface here
0,11km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 550km²
Discharge in basins
1,7m³/s
Mean precip.
536mm/an
Mean T°
2,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,35
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
75mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 617m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Big Thompson Riversub-area2 115,2 km²overlap381.59 km²38%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 231,1 km²overlap370.62 km²37%
- Bassin de Cache la Poudre Riversub-area792,2 km²overlap124.48 km²12%
- Bassin de South Boulder Creeksub-area2 549,3 km²overlap112.86 km²11%
- Bassin de South Fork Cache la Poudre Riversub-area262,1 km²overlap17.76 km²2%
- Bassin de Michigan Riversub-area1 189,4 km²overlap1.45 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (34, ord ≥ 4)
- East Inletord 2len here13.85 km78%total18 km
- Big Thompson Riverord 4len here13.46 km18%total74 km
- North Inletord 1len here12.95 km84%total15 km
- Cache la Poudre Riverord 5len here12.30 km8%total155 km
- Tonahutu Creekord 1len here12.19 km89%total14 km
- Colorado Riverord 8len here10.77 km0%total3561 km
- North Fork Big Thompson Riverord 2len here7.91 km42%total19 km
- Mummy Pass Creekord 1len here7.42 km100%total7 km
- Opposition Creekord 2len here6.59 km95%total7 km
- West Creekord 2len here6.38 km3%total217 km
- Roaring Riverord 4len here6.22 km14%total46 km
- Hayden Creekord 2len here5.72 km24%total24 km
22 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Onahu Creekord 1len here4.53 km89%total5 km
- North Saint Vrain Creekord 3len here4.41 km13%total35 km
- Black Canyon Creekord 1len here4.28 km50%total9 km
- Glacier Creekord 1len here4.21 km36%total12 km
- Columbine Creekord 1len here3.92 km97%total4 km
- Fall Riverord 5len here3.58 km2%total175 km
- Cow Creekord 6len here2.74 km1%total415 km
- Cascade Creekord 2len here2.63 km5%total58 km
- Hunters Creekord 1len here2.27 km33%total7 km
- Spruce Creekord 3len here2.18 km3%total67 km
- Beaver Creekord 5len here1.97 km1%total250 km
- Sandbeach Creekord 2len here1.88 km100%total2 km
- Fall Creekord 4len here1.54 km1%total230 km
- Grand Ditchord 1len here1.42 km27%total5 km
- Timber Creekord 1len here1.35 km25%total5 km
- Cony Creekord 1len here1.34 km100%total1 km
- Horse Creekord 7len here1.29 km0%total1158 km
- Bighorn Creekord 2len here1.22 km10%total12 km
- Roaring Forkord 3len here1.16 km2%total69 km
- Ouzel Creekord 1len here0.87 km101%total1 km
- Lulu Creekord 1len here0.87 km100%total1 km
- Corral Creekord 4len here0.23 km0%total48 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
- 40.46118, -105.67104
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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.