HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080463860
Bassin de Owyhee 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
382,1km²
Upstream area
23 596,3km²
Discharge
33,28m³/s
Mean elev.
1 176m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Crooked Creek63 km²
- Bassin de Owyhee River52 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 382.7 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Saddle Butte
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
144.15 km² overlap
Lower Owyhee Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
80.71 km² overlap
Owyhee River
IUCN VDesignated - Wild
17.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
377 distinct species · 1 131 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 Owyhee River : 19 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
8,8°C
Annual rain
248mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 197mm
AET
214mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
959cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)