National Park · usa
Rocky Mountain
- Area
- 1 074 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1915
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1915
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 424 distinct species · 448 441 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 122 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.5%, 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 · 3 lakes · 36 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
197,6km
Lake surface here
0,11km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 550km²
Discharge in basins
1,9m³/s
Mean precip.
534mm/an
Mean T°
3,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,35
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
75mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 607m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Big Thompson Riversub-area2 115,2 km²overlap419.03 km²39%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area1 231,1 km²overlap388.06 km²36%
- Bassin de Cache la Poudre Riversub-area792,2 km²overlap125.50 km²12%
- Bassin de South Boulder Creeksub-area2 549,3 km²overlap122.60 km²11%
- Bassin de South Fork Cache la Poudre Riversub-area262,1 km²overlap17.75 km²2%
- Bassin de Michigan Riversub-area1 189,4 km²overlap1.44 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (36, ord ≥ 4)
- Big Thompson Riverord 4len here16.47 km22%total74 km
- Colorado Riverord 8len here15.33 km0%total3561 km
- East Inletord 2len here14.90 km84%total18 km
- North Inletord 1len here13.67 km88%total15 km
- Tonahutu Creekord 1len here12.73 km93%total14 km
- Cache la Poudre Riverord 5len here12.29 km8%total155 km
- Glacier Creekord 1len here11.39 km98%total12 km
- North Fork Big Thompson Riverord 2len here7.91 km42%total19 km
- Mummy Pass Creekord 1len here7.42 km100%total7 km
- Opposition Creekord 2len here6.96 km100%total7 km
- Fall Riverord 5len here6.87 km4%total175 km
- West Creekord 2len here6.37 km3%total217 km
24 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Roaring Riverord 4len here6.33 km14%total46 km
- Hayden Creekord 2len here5.72 km24%total24 km
- Bighorn Creekord 2len here5.05 km42%total12 km
- Onahu Creekord 1len here5.05 km99%total5 km
- Black Canyon Creekord 1len here4.48 km52%total9 km
- North Saint Vrain Creekord 3len here4.41 km13%total35 km
- Columbine Creekord 1len here3.96 km98%total4 km
- Cow Creekord 6len here3.92 km1%total415 km
- Beaver Creekord 6len here3.19 km0%total3076 km
- Beaver Creekord 5len here2.86 km1%total250 km
- Cascade Creekord 2len here2.63 km5%total58 km
- Horse Creekord 7len here2.44 km0%total1158 km
- Hunters Creekord 1len here2.27 km33%total7 km
- Spruce Creekord 3len here2.18 km3%total67 km
- Sandbeach Creekord 2len here1.88 km100%total2 km
- Fall Creekord 4len here1.54 km1%total230 km
- Timber Creekord 1len here1.46 km28%total5 km
- Grand Ditchord 1len here1.39 km27%total5 km
- Cony Creekord 1len here1.34 km100%total1 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 here0.22 km0%total48 km
- Aspen Brookord 2len here0.02 km1%total2 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
- 40.35552, -105.71769
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.