Paria -- Cataloging Unit 14070007

• Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil Subregion 1407
  
• Upper Colorado Region 14 (There are 62 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 74.0% Utah, 26.0% Arizona.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 3710.7 km² ( 1433.3 mi² ) [% in USA = 60.26, % in Region = 40.32]
  The area from the USGS is 1420 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 689)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1482551 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1864.6 m ( 6117.4 ft ) [% in USA = 91.09, % in Region = 16.13]
  The elevation standard deviation is 258.3 m ( 847.4 ft ) [% in USA = 78.35, % in Region = 25.81]
  The coefficient of variation is 13.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 2155.3 m ( 7071.1 ft ) [% in USA = 90.95, % in Region = 61.29]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	975.0	1531.9	1654.3	1747.3	1817.1	1873.5	1922.8	1968.9	2048.2	2176.0	3130.3
  feet	3198.8	5025.9	5427.4	5732.5	5961.5	6146.6	6308.3	6459.6	6719.7	7139.0	10269.9

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	11.8	7.3	0.003	0.005	6.30	4.84
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.8	0.5	0.000	0.000	36.29	20.97
  Perennial Streams	149.1	92.7	0.040	0.065	14.68	20.97
  Intermittent Streams	1815.0	1128.0	0.489	0.787	68.26	45.16
  Canals	0.3	0.2	0.000	0.000	37.38	14.52
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	59.68
  2° roads	41.9	26.0	0.011	0.018	29.13	50.00
  3° roads	54.8	34.1	0.015	0.024	15.92	32.26
  4° roads	1273.3	791.4	0.343	0.552	2.65	9.68
  Total Roads	1370.0	851.5	0.369	0.594	2.56	8.06
  Railroads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	12.60	54.84
  Pipes and Powerlines	205.0	127.4	0.055	0.089	75.13	95.16

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 91.86% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 90.15, % in Region = 91.94]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu