HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080529220
Bassin de Smoke 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 1 administrative regions : Washoe
Sub-basin area
386km²
Upstream area
888,6km²
Discharge
1,16m³/s
Mean elev.
1 352m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Smoke Creek369 km²
- Bassin de Rush Creek134 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 386.4 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Dry Valley Rim
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
115.13 km² overlap
Twin Peaks
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
64.01 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Washoe, NV
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
1.67 km² overlap
Five Springs
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
317 distinct species · 2 916 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Smoke Creek : 30 espèces reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
251mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 235mm
AET
217mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
389cm
Forest
44%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)