Wilderness Area · USA
Death Valley
- Area
- 12 912 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1994
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1994
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 458 distinct species · 31 367 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 Death Valley : 35 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology35 basins · 4 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
497,5km
Lake surface here
16,90km²
Basins crossed
35
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
21 174km²
Discharge in basins
12,9m³/s
Mean precip.
128mm/an
Mean T°
16,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,91
Max snow
2%
Mean runoff
23mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
991m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Death Valley Washsub-area2 010,6 km²overlap1419.99 km²11%
- Basin #74830sub-area1 927,7 km²overlap1328.07 km²10%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area1 490,3 km²overlap1132.02 km²9%
- Basin #75160sub-area1 539,9 km²overlap952.54 km²7%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area1 077,6 km²overlap939.59 km²7%
- Bassin de Marble Canyonsub-area921,1 km²overlap867.75 km²7%
- Bassin de Darwin Washsub-area1 483,6 km²overlap700.46 km²5%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area2 150,5 km²overlap552.36 km²4%
- Basin #74510sub-area2 730,4 km²overlap466.87 km²4%
26 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area455,2 km²overlap447.99 km²3%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area431 km²overlap416.50 km²3%
- Basin #77600sub-area848,3 km²overlap404.13 km²3%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area535,7 km²overlap368.37 km²3%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area363,6 km²overlap359.63 km²3%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area353,6 km²overlap322.26 km²2%
- Basin #80410sub-area319,8 km²overlap316.84 km²2%
- Bassin de Copper Canyonsub-area295,7 km²overlap292.05 km²2%
- Basin #19030sub-area286,5 km²overlap286.19 km²2%
- Bassin de Furnace Creek Washsub-area478 km²overlap276.34 km²2%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area234,4 km²overlap233.94 km²2%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area602,5 km²overlap174.48 km²1%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area727,4 km²overlap118.70 km²1%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area245,7 km²overlap85.12 km²1%
- Bassin de Tolicha Washsub-area3 524,2 km²overlap81.02 km²1%
- Basin #22100sub-area91,1 km²overlap79.29 km²1%
- Bassin de Gower Gulchsub-area56,8 km²overlap56.83 km²0%
- Basin #73690sub-area47 km²overlap47.00 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area44,6 km²overlap44.47 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area45,6 km²overlap41.64 km²0%
- Basin #21120sub-area36,4 km²overlap36.43 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area34,1 km²overlap33.99 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area229,6 km²overlap16.63 km²0%
- Bassin de Windy Washsub-area627,3 km²overlap7.32 km²0%
- Bassin de Fortymile Canyonsub-area911 km²overlap3.32 km²0%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area55,1 km²overlap2.09 km²0%
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Amargosa Riverord 5len here270.66 km41%total652 km
- Death Valley Washord 4len here63.82 km76%total84 km
- Salt Creekord 5len here57.51 km98%total58 km
- Copper Canyonord 2len here19.99 km100%total20 km
- Marble Canyonord 2len here18.79 km99%total19 km
- Furnace Creek Washord 3len here17.91 km27%total67 km
- Virgin Spring Creekord 1len here15.56 km95%total16 km
- Willow Creekord 5len here12.48 km68%total18 km
- Sheep Canyonord 1len here9.59 km97%total10 km
- Gower Gulchord 3len here7.08 km63%total11 km
- Fortymile Washord 4len here3.49 km7%total47 km
- Salt Creekord 4len here0.63 km1%total78 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
- 35.80305, -116.82454
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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.