HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080382280
Bassin de Columbia 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 : Benton, Walla Walla
Sub-basin area
488,6km²
Upstream area
531 052,2km²
Discharge
5 364,76m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Columbia River2425 km²
- Bassin de Snake River1872 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 309.9 km²63.3% of basin
- Benton180.0 km²36.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mcnary
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
41.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
967 distinct species · 258 267 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Columbia River : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
11,5°C
Annual rain
257mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 103mm
AET
224mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
788cm
Forest
19%
Crops
79%
Urban
5%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)