HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080369340
Bassin de Tucannon 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 2 administrative regions : Columbia, Garfield
Sub-basin area
1 319,4km²
Upstream area
1 319,4km²
Discharge
4,11m³/s
Mean elev.
827m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Columbia785.9 km²59.4% of basin
- Garfield536.9 km²40.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Blue Mountains
IUCN VWildlife Area Complex
62.46 km² overlap
Wenaha-Tucannon
IUCN IbWilderness
49.86 km² overlap
Pataha Bunchgrass
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 354 distinct species · 26 798 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 Tucannon River : 26 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
8,1°C
Annual rain
544mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
100mm/an
PET
991mm
AET
444mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
912cm
Forest
40%
Crops
39%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)