HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080357690
Bassin de American River
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 3 administrative regions : Lewis, Pierce, Yakima
Sub-basin area
520,9km²
Upstream area
520,9km²
Discharge
11,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 436m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 512.4 km²98.1% of basin
- Lewis6.8 km²1.3% of basin
- Pierce3.1 km²0.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
William O. Douglas
IUCN IbWilderness
332.46 km² overlap
Norse Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
59.85 km² overlap
Mount Rainier
IUCN IINational Park
1.35 km² overlap
Mount Rainier
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 355 distinct species · 17 133 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 American River : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
3,6°C
Annual rain
1 964mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,65
Runoff
847mm/an
PET
646mm
AET
534mm
Mean slope
18,1°
Water table
733cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)