HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080517800
Bassin de 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 3 administrative regions : Elko, Eureka, Lander
Sub-basin area
154,3km²
Upstream area
154,3km²
Discharge
0,25m³/s
Mean elev.
1 631m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.2 km²47.4% of basin
- 72.2 km²46.8% of basin
- 9.0 km²5.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
8,1°C
Annual rain
262mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
52mm/an
PET
1 167mm
AET
227mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
1 043cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)