National Park · usa
Death Valley
- Area
- 13 682 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1994
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1994
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 218 distinct species · 225 169 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 89 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, 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).
Hydrology36 basins · 4 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
555,7km
Lake surface here
19,15km²
Basins crossed
36
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
21 174km²
Discharge in basins
13,6m³/s
Mean precip.
128mm/an
Mean T°
16,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,91
Max snow
2%
Mean runoff
22mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
999m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Death Valley Washsub-area2 010,6 km²overlap1475.05 km²11%
- Basin #74830sub-area1 927,7 km²overlap1352.70 km²10%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area1 490,3 km²overlap1113.15 km²8%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area1 077,6 km²overlap1068.75 km²8%
- Basin #75160sub-area1 539,9 km²overlap990.83 km²7%
- Bassin de Marble Canyonsub-area921,1 km²overlap920.92 km²7%
- Bassin de Darwin Washsub-area1 483,6 km²overlap748.62 km²5%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area2 150,5 km²overlap536.05 km²4%
- Basin #74510sub-area2 730,4 km²overlap498.00 km²4%
27 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area455,2 km²overlap450.14 km²3%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area431 km²overlap430.46 km²3%
- Bassin de Furnace Creek Washsub-area478 km²overlap391.53 km²3%
- Basin #77600sub-area848,3 km²overlap383.43 km²3%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area535,7 km²overlap370.65 km²3%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area363,6 km²overlap363.53 km²3%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area353,6 km²overlap352.20 km²3%
- Basin #80410sub-area319,8 km²overlap319.89 km²2%
- Bassin de Copper Canyonsub-area295,7 km²overlap289.92 km²2%
- Basin #19030sub-area286,5 km²overlap286.55 km²2%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area234,4 km²overlap234.44 km²2%
- Bassin de Tolicha Washsub-area3 524,2 km²overlap192.11 km²1%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area602,5 km²overlap187.85 km²1%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area245,7 km²overlap152.66 km²1%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area727,4 km²overlap111.23 km²1%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area229,6 km²overlap102.56 km²1%
- Basin #22100sub-area91,1 km²overlap91.12 km²1%
- Bassin de Gower Gulchsub-area56,8 km²overlap56.83 km²0%
- Basin #73690sub-area47 km²overlap47.00 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area44,6 km²overlap44.63 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area45,6 km²overlap38.12 km²0%
- Basin #21120sub-area36,4 km²overlap36.43 km²0%
- Bassin de Amargosa Riversub-area34,1 km²overlap34.08 km²0%
- Bassin de Windy Washsub-area627,3 km²overlap5.61 km²0%
- Bassin de Fortymile Canyonsub-area911 km²overlap3.01 km²0%
- Bassin de Salt Creeksub-area55,1 km²overlap2.10 km²0%
- Bassin de Rock Valley Washsub-area2 118,9 km²overlap0.16 km²0%
Lakes (4, top by area)
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Amargosa Riverord 5len here264.04 km40%total652 km
- Death Valley Washord 4len here78.03 km93%total84 km
- Furnace Creek Washord 3len here66.27 km98%total67 km
- Salt Creekord 5len here58.40 km100%total58 km
- Copper Canyonord 2len here19.99 km100%total20 km
- Marble Canyonord 2len here19.00 km100%total19 km
- Virgin Spring Creekord 1len here16.29 km100%total16 km
- Willow Creekord 5len here11.12 km60%total18 km
- Sheep Canyonord 1len here9.94 km100%total10 km
- Gower Gulchord 3len here9.12 km82%total11 km
- Fortymile Washord 4len here2.85 km6%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
- 36.47031, -117.08845
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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.