HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080417880
Bassin de Deschutes 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 6 administrative regions : Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Linn, Marion +1
Sub-basin area
2 403,7km²
Upstream area
21 068,1km²
Discharge
145,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 027m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Crooked River715 km²
- Bassin de Deschutes River119 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Jefferson2247.8 km²93.3% of basin
- 97.8 km²4.1% of basin
- 37.2 km²1.5% of basin
- 16.7 km²0.7% of basin
- Linn5.1 km²0.2% of basin
- Marion4.2 km²0.2% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Mount Jefferson
IUCN IbWilderness
140.83 km² overlap
Metolius, Oregon
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
36.61 km² overlap
Mount Washington
IUCN IbWilderness
31.01 km² overlap
Designated - Recreational
15.23 km² overlap
Cache Mountain
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
6.26 km² overlap
Metolius
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
5.48 km² overlap
Metolius
IUCN VPreserve
5.15 km² overlap
Haystack Butte
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.29 km² overlap
Metolius River
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.11 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Metolius River
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 772 distinct species · 184 898 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Deschutes River : 25 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, 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°
7,2°C
Annual rain
803mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
558mm/an
PET
997mm
AET
451mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
489cm
Forest
60%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)