HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080506080
Bassin de South Fork Salmon 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, Siskiyou, Trinity
Sub-basin area
1 945,4km²
Upstream area
1 945,4km²
Discharge
53,87m³/s
Mean elev.
1 310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1940.3 km²99.6% of basin
- Trinity6.3 km²0.3% of basin
- Humboldt1.4 km²0.1% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Marble Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
602.92 km² overlap
Trinity Alps
IUCN IbWilderness
264.92 km² overlap
Klamath, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
53.87 km² overlap
Russian
IUCN IbWilderness
22.05 km² overlap
Bridge Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
6.95 km² overlap
Sugar Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 616 distinct species · 27 219 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 South Fork Salmon River : 34 espèces reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
1 039mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
873mm/an
PET
1 071mm
AET
594mm
Mean slope
22,4°
Water table
682cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)