HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080493540
Bassin de Cottonwood 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 : Jackson, Siskiyou
Sub-basin area
259,7km²
Upstream area
259,7km²
Discharge
2,96m³/s
Mean elev.
1 145m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 166.0 km²63.8% of basin
- Jackson94.1 km²36.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cascade-Siskiyou
IUCN VNational Monument
43.01 km² overlap
Soda Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
11.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 177 distinct species · 24 662 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Cottonwood Creek : 27 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
8,2°C
Annual rain
623mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
368mm/an
PET
1 105mm
AET
504mm
Mean slope
13,2°
Water table
393cm
Forest
93%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)