HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080517780
Bassin de Pit 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 2 administrative regions : Lassen, Modoc
Sub-basin area
547,6km²
Upstream area
9 257,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
1 475m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pit River2526 km²
- Bassin de Willow Creek1165 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 494.6 km²90.2% of basin
- 53.7 km²9.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pit River Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
23.12 km² overlap
Reserve Program
5.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
627 distinct species · 5 645 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Pit River : 19 espèces reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 20.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
7,6°C
Annual rain
520mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
167mm/an
PET
1 123mm
AET
441mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
298cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)