HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080392060
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 : Gilliam, Klickitat
Sub-basin area
1 603,2km²
Upstream area
550 443km²
Discharge
5 378,64m³/s
Mean elev.
524m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Willow Creek2238 km²
- Bassin de Columbia River92 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1193.7 km²74.3% of basin
- 413.4 km²25.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Klickitat Oaks
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.72 km² overlap
Cleveland Shrub Steppe
IUCN VNatural Area Preserve
2.61 km² overlap
Badger Gulch
IUCN VNatural Area Preserve
0.72 km² overlap
Willow Creek
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 285 distinct species · 56 178 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
9,9°C
Annual rain
315mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
68mm/an
PET
1 035mm
AET
271mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
1 034cm
Forest
18%
Crops
34%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)