HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080377120
Bassin de Yakima 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 1 administrative regions : Yakima
Sub-basin area
30,6km²
Upstream area
11 577,7km²
Discharge
90,62m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Simcoe Creek1607 km²
- Bassin de North Fork Ahtanum Creek1557 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sunnyside-Snake River
IUCN VWildlife Area Complex
0.94 km² overlap
Toppenish
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
322 distinct species · 21 551 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Yakima River : 23 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
181mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 132mm
AET
161mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
153cm
Forest
14%
Crops
76%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)