HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080074740
Bassin de Cache 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 : Kern, San Bernardino
Sub-basin area
2 052,5km²
Upstream area
2 052,7km²
Discharge
1,5m³/s
Mean elev.
982m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1967.8 km²95.9% of basin
- 84.7 km²4.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Golden Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
16.50 km² overlap
El Paso Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
10.79 km² overlap
Fremont Valley
IUCN VEcological Reserve
9.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 842 distinct species · 200 675 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Cache Creek : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.6%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
15,9°C
Annual rain
177mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
1 460mm
AET
150mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
536cm
Forest
7%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)