Wilderness · usa
Weminuche
- Area
- 2 025 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1975
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1975
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 731 distinct species · 23 088 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Weminuche : 37 espèces reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology11 basins · 3 lakes · 54 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
338,6km
Lake surface here
1,23km²
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 981km²
Discharge in basins
12,6m³/s
Mean precip.
724mm/an
Mean T°
1,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,14
Max snow
53%
Mean runoff
148mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 990m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Los Pinos Riversub-area1 654,7 km²overlap515.45 km²25%
- Bassin de Rio Grandesub-area669 km²overlap359.40 km²18%
- Bassin de Piedra Riversub-area1 738 km²overlap272.84 km²13%
- Bassin de Animas Riversub-area662,2 km²overlap242.86 km²12%
- Bassin de San Juan Riversub-area1 631,2 km²overlap181.58 km²9%
- Bassin de Goose Creeksub-area237,4 km²overlap159.08 km²8%
- Bassin de Rio Grandesub-area946 km²overlap110.80 km²5%
- Bassin de Florida Riversub-area572,5 km²overlap87.83 km²4%
- Bassin de South Fork Rio Grandesub-area542 km²overlap51.26 km²3%
2 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (54, ord ≥ 4)
- Vallecito Creekord 2len here16.50 km100%total17 km
- Goose Creekord 2len here13.99 km58%total24 km
- Los Pinos Riverord 3len here13.86 km25%total55 km
- Rio Grandeord 7len here13.24 km1%total1320 km
- Florida Riverord 3len here13.12 km16%total81 km
- Dead Horse Creekord 5len here12.59 km62%total20 km
- Grizzly Creekord 3len here11.62 km82%total14 km
- Middle Fork Piedra Riverord 2len here11.45 km52%total22 km
- Lake Creekord 2len here10.84 km21%total52 km
- Needle Creekord 3len here10.45 km38%total27 km
- Little Spruce Creekord 1len here9.85 km96%total10 km
- West Fork San Juan Riverord 3len here9.65 km53%total18 km
42 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Texas Creekord 1len here9.59 km91%total11 km
- Ute Creekord 2len here9.44 km22%total42 km
- East Fork Piedra Riverord 2len here9.32 km50%total19 km
- Fisher Creekord 1len here9.32 km100%total9 km
- Elk Creekord 5len here8.87 km12%total72 km
- South Canyonord 3len here8.80 km19%total46 km
- East Fork Weminuche Creekord 1len here8.59 km76%total11 km
- Animas Riverord 4len here8.11 km6%total131 km
- Leopard Creekord 1len here8.02 km95%total8 km
- Flint Creekord 1len here7.82 km100%total8 km
- Williams Creekord 3len here7.35 km22%total33 km
- Beaver Creekord 5len here6.78 km3%total250 km
- Noname Creekord 1len here6.19 km100%total6 km
- Raber Lohr Ditchord 1len here5.87 km100%total6 km
- Middle Ute Creekord 1len here5.72 km100%total6 km
- Rincon La Osaord 1len here5.49 km100%total5 km
- Lime Creekord 5len here4.97 km7%total68 km
- Waldner Creekord 2len here4.85 km39%total13 km
- Tenmile Creekord 3len here4.82 km15%total32 km
- West Ute Creekord 1len here4.67 km100%total5 km
- Ivy Creekord 2len here4.31 km68%total6 km
- Fourmile Creekord 2len here4.24 km12%total34 km
- Johnson Creekord 2len here4.02 km7%total55 km
- Rainbow Creekord 1len here3.58 km100%total4 km
- East Trout Creekord 1len here3.53 km59%total6 km
- Weminuche Creekord 1len here2.95 km85%total3 km
- Roaring Forkord 1len here2.84 km100%total3 km
- Sierra Vandera Creekord 2len here2.73 km100%total3 km
- Turkey Creekord 3len here2.63 km2%total134 km
- West Trout Creekord 1len here2.47 km100%total2 km
- Jumper Creekord 2len here2.33 km22%total11 km
- Snowslide Canyonord 2len here2.31 km100%total2 km
- South Fork Rio Grandeord 3len here1.94 km6%total35 km
- Purgatory Creekord 3len here1.53 km33%total5 km
- Deadman Creekord 2len here1.26 km5%total27 km
- D Creekord 1len here1.14 km51%total2 km
- Sunlight Creekord 1len here0.92 km100%total1 km
- Pigeon Creekord 4len here0.70 km2%total33 km
- South Bear Creekord 2len here0.59 km22%total3 km
- Cave Basin Creekord 1len here0.55 km100%total1 km
- Hope Creekord 1len here0.31 km6%total5 km
- Lost Trail Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal12 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
- 37.59991, -107.40507
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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.