Wilderness Area · USA
Zion
- Area
- 503 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 ; Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 798 distinct species · 58 202 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 Zion : 33 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 22 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
107,7km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 189km²
Discharge in basins
2,8m³/s
Mean precip.
411mm/an
Mean T°
9,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,65
Max snow
24%
Mean runoff
80mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 907m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (22, ord ≥ 4)
- Virgin Riverord 6len here15.58 km3%total492 km
- La Verkin Creekord 2len here15.04 km33%total45 km
- Right Fork of North Creekord 1len here8.80 km100%total9 km
- Russell Gulchord 2len here8.39 km36%total23 km
- Coalpits Washord 1len here7.73 km100%total8 km
- Crawford Washord 3len here7.58 km67%total11 km
- Little Creekord 2len here7.25 km37%total19 km
- Orderville Canyonord 1len here4.26 km10%total42 km
- Shunes Creekord 3len here3.98 km18%total22 km
- Timber Creekord 1len here3.83 km72%total5 km
- Left Fork North Creekord 2len here3.42 km100%total3 km
- Willis Creekord 2len here3.34 km99%total3 km
10 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Deep Creekord 5len here3.13 km1%total227 km
- Pine Spring Washord 1len here3.08 km63%total5 km
- Clear Creekord 7len here2.79 km1%total223 km
- North Fork Virgin Riverord 3len here2.44 km8%total29 km
- North Creekord 4len here1.80 km4%total47 km
- Camp Creekord 2len here1.58 km3%total56 km
- Spring Creekord 4len here1.57 km0%total316 km
- Bear Trap Canyonord 1len here1.51 km100%total2 km
- East Fork Virgin Riverord 3len here0.39 km0%total90 km
- Oak Creekord 4len here0.16 km0%total208 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
- 37.28101, -113.02591
- 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.