HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080392390
Bassin de Grass Valley Canyon
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, Sherman
Sub-basin area
754,5km²
Upstream area
20 521,3km²
Discharge
80,4m³/s
Mean elev.
515m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rock Creek1340 km²
- Bassin de John Day River1224 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Sherman679.0 km²89.8% of basin
- 77.3 km²10.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
John Day River
IUCN VDesignated - Recreational
19.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
891 distinct species · 15 702 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Grass Valley Canyon : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 127 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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
291mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
103mm/an
PET
1 042mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
626cm
Forest
1%
Crops
71%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)