HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080443690
Bassin de Little 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 1 administrative regions : Deschutes
Sub-basin area
486,3km²
Upstream area
2 704,1km²
Discharge
32,87m³/s
Mean elev.
1 545m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Long Prairie Slough1215 km²
- Bassin de Crescent Creek1003 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 487.3 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Mokst Butte
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
1.30 km² overlap
Deschutes, Oregon
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
0.40 km² overlap
Designated - Recreational
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
893 distinct species · 32 445 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Little Deschutes River : 29 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
5,4°C
Annual rain
532mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
225mm/an
PET
956mm
AET
421mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
567cm
Forest
78%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)