HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080076740
Bassin de Quail Wash
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 : Riverside, San Bernardino
Sub-basin area
650,3km²
Upstream area
650,3km²
Discharge
0,17m³/s
Mean elev.
1 138m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 495.3 km²76.2% of basin
- 154.8 km²23.8% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Joshua Tree
IUCN IINational Park
301.80 km² overlap
Joshua Tree
IUCN IbWilderness Area
173.18 km² overlap
Private Conservation
14.16 km² overlap
Pioneertown Mountains
IUCN VPreserve
9.55 km² overlap
Juniper Canyon
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
2.57 km² overlap
Sand To Snow
IUCN VNational Monument
1.41 km² overlap
Sand To Snow
IUCN VNational Monument
1.41 km² overlap
Burns Piñon Ridge
IUCN VReserve
1.23 km² overlap
Private Conservation
1.16 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
San Gorgonio
IUCN IbWilderness
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 008 distinct species · 163 089 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Quail Wash : 37 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 123 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
16,0°C
Annual rain
284mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
1 516mm
AET
240mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
640cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
4%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)