HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080386330
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 3 administrative regions : Benton, Umatilla, Walla Walla
Sub-basin area
622km²
Upstream area
536 220,9km²
Discharge
5 380,01m³/s
Mean elev.
318m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Columbia River489 km²
- Bassin de Walla Walla River296 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 348.3 km²55.9% of basin
- Benton250.7 km²40.2% of basin
- 24.6 km²3.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Wanaket
IUCN VWildlife Area
9.44 km² overlap
Mcnary
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
6.14 km² overlap
McNary Wildlife
IUCN VNature Area
1.39 km² overlap
Cold Springs
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
966 distinct species · 220 345 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
11,0°C
Annual rain
284mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 080mm
AET
247mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
1 057cm
Forest
16%
Crops
57%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)