National Monument · usa
Vermilion Cliffs
- Area
- 1 189 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- National Monument
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 153 distinct species · 16 033 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Vermilion Cliffs : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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 · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
184,7km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
283 293km²
Discharge in basins
223,8m³/s
Mean precip.
252mm/an
Mean T°
10,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,79
Max snow
8%
Mean runoff
34mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 785m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Paria Riversub-area545,9 km²overlap495.51 km²42%
- Bassin de Buckskin Gulchsub-area1 243,2 km²overlap304.05 km²26%
- Bassin de House Rock Washsub-area790,1 km²overlap143.16 km²12%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area398,4 km²overlap126.01 km²11%
- Basin #84190sub-area59,9 km²overlap59.90 km²5%
- Bassin de Colorado Riversub-area657,7 km²overlap59.34 km²5%
- Bassin de Wahweap Creeksub-area1 197,5 km²overlap1.47 km²0%
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Paria Riverord 5len here94.49 km46%total206 km
- Buckskin Gulchord 4len here31.01 km35%total88 km
- House Rock Washord 3len here22.82 km29%total78 km
- Coyote Washord 4len here11.32 km4%total295 km
- Ferry Swale Canyonord 1len here6.38 km91%total7 km
- Colorado Riverord 8len here5.63 km0%total3561 km
- Badger Canyon Creekord 2len here3.28 km32%total10 km
- Emmett Washord 1len here2.29 km22%total10 km
- North Larkum Canyonord 2len here2.18 km28%total8 km
- Burro Canyonord 1len here1.28 km13%total10 km
- Trail Canyonord 3len here1.25 km3%total46 km
- Judd Holloword 1len here1.06 km17%total6 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 36.84266, -111.86144
- 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.