HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080479800
Bassin de West Little 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 3 administrative regions : Humboldt, Malheur, Owyhee
Sub-basin area
806,3km²
Upstream area
806,3km²
Discharge
1,27m³/s
Mean elev.
1 706m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 795.4 km²98.5% of basin
- Humboldt8.1 km²1.0% of basin
- OwyheeIdaho · United States4.0 km²0.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Owyhee River Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
356.69 km² overlap
Upper West Little Owyhee
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
155.57 km² overlap
Lookout Butte
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
86.46 km² overlap
Wild River
51.86 km² overlap
Owyhee River
IUCN IbWilderness Area
3.48 km² overlap
Owyhee River
IUCN VDesignated - Wild
0.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
560 distinct species · 2 319 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 West Little Owyhee River : 17 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
6,3°C
Annual rain
320mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 090mm
AET
276mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
1 394cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)