HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080441020
Bassin de Malheur 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 1 administrative regions : Malheur
Sub-basin area
2 192,8km²
Upstream area
8 377,2km²
Discharge
26,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 107m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de North Fork Malheur River1419 km²
- Bassin de Malheur River246 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2197.0 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Camp Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
80.51 km² overlap
Gold Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
55.04 km² overlap
Cottonwood Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
32.84 km² overlap
Sperry Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
21.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
966 distinct species · 12 901 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Malheur River : 26 espèces reliées par 141 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
8,4°C
Annual rain
297mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
1 128mm
AET
257mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
1 026cm
Forest
0%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)