Wilderness Study Area · usa
Wahweap
- Area
- 584 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1983
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Study Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1983
- Managing authority
- Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
593 distinct species · 5 178 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Wahweap : 11 espèces reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 32.3%, 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).
Hydrology4 basins · 0 lakes · 16 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
116,1km
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
275 448km²
Discharge in basins
75,5m³/s
Mean precip.
183mm/an
Mean T°
12,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,86
Max snow
4%
Mean runoff
25mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 556m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (16, ord ≥ 4)
- Wahweap Creekord 4len here59.21 km43%total137 km
- Coyote Creekord 3len here11.51 km22%total53 km
- Clints Canyonord 1len here8.77 km81%total11 km
- Tommy Smith Creekord 2len here6.67 km62%total11 km
- Fourmile Canyonord 2len here5.99 km21%total29 km
- Wesses Canyonord 2len here4.99 km19%total26 km
- Drip Tank Canyonord 1len here4.38 km56%total8 km
- Chynoweth Canyonord 3len here3.33 km100%total3 km
- Hackberry Creekord 2len here2.89 km4%total66 km
- Shittum Washord 3len here2.15 km20%total11 km
- Nipple Creekord 1len here1.49 km17%total9 km
- John Henry Canyonord 2len here1.39 km33%total4 km
4 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
- 37.28372, -111.81136
- 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.