HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080531660
Bassin de Sacramento 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 : Shasta, Tehama
Sub-basin area
4,8km²
Upstream area
24 331,9km²
Discharge
222,85m³/s
Mean elev.
123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Fork Cottonwood Creek2458 km²
- Bassin de Ash Creek96 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.8 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sacramento River ACEC
IUCN VConservation Easement
2.01 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
665 distinct species · 35 623 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Sacramento River : 28 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
729mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
445mm/an
PET
1 404mm
AET
610mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
122cm
Forest
93%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)