HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080466530
Bassin de Jordan Creek
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 : Malheur, Owyhee
Sub-basin area
814,7km²
Upstream area
814,8km²
Discharge
1,83m³/s
Mean elev.
1 470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 643.9 km²78.9% of basin
- OwyheeIdaho · United States172.2 km²21.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Jordan Craters
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
58.46 km² overlap
Clarks Butte
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
49.99 km² overlap
Owyhee Breaks
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
648 distinct species · 8 008 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 Jordan Creek : 20 espèces reliées par 133 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
6,9°C
Annual rain
351mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 091mm
AET
302mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
1 068cm
Forest
4%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)