HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080508510
Bassin de High Rock 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 : Humboldt, Washoe
Sub-basin area
883,3km²
Upstream area
883,3km²
Discharge
1,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 802m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 736.0 km²83.2% of basin
- Humboldt148.5 km²16.8% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
National Conservation Area
563.57 km² overlap
East Fork High Rock Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
204.40 km² overlap
High Rock Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
186.47 km² overlap
Sheldon
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
56.49 km² overlap
Little High Rock Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
30.02 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
6.02 km² overlap
High Rock Lake
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
464 distinct species · 1 784 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 High Rock Creek : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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°
6,7°C
Annual rain
301mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
71mm/an
PET
1 070mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
546cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)