HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080487850
Bassin de Mowitz 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 3 administrative regions : Klamath, Lake, Modoc
Sub-basin area
679,9km²
Upstream area
2 283,7km²
Discharge
1,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Willow Creek338 km²
- Bassin de Willow Creek40 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 344.9 km²50.7% of basin
- 334.8 km²49.2% of basin
- Lake1.2 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Clear Lake
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
15.75 km² overlap
Reserve Program
9.07 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
361 distinct species · 7 621 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 Mowitz Creek : 27 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
7,3°C
Annual rain
388mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
115mm/an
PET
1 098mm
AET
333mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
531cm
Forest
79%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)