HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080074130
Bassin de Rock Creek
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Harney, Lake
Sub-basin area
5 287,6km²
Upstream area
5 287,6km²
Discharge
5,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 576m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4042.3 km²76.3% of basin
- Lake1254.1 km²23.7% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
Refuge
787.27 km² overlap
Basque Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
567.63 km² overlap
BLM_CMPA
294.19 km² overlap
Rincon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
128.78 km² overlap
Steens Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
102.77 km² overlap
Blitzen River
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
58.26 km² overlap
Spaulding
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
55.76 km² overlap
Wilderness Study Area
41.50 km² overlap
Proposed Wilderness
40.49 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hawk Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
17.82 km² overlap
Guano Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
9.16 km² overlap
Home Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
4.66 km² overlap
Research Natural Area
2.02 km² overlap
Orejana Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 401 distinct species · 56 849 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Bassin de Rock Creek : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 21.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
7,1°C
Annual rain
281mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
1 082mm
AET
245mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
557cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)