HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080542660
Bassin de North Fork Eel 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 : Mendocino, Trinity
Sub-basin area
725,8km²
Upstream area
725,8km²
Discharge
22,81m³/s
Mean elev.
918m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Trinity504.1 km²69.4% of basin
- 222.5 km²30.6% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel
IUCN IbWilderness
84.38 km² overlap
North Fork
IUCN IbWilderness
33.57 km² overlap
Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel
IUCN IbWilderness Area
30.79 km² overlap
Eel, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
18.64 km² overlap
Big Butte
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
6.29 km² overlap
Spyrock
IUCN VReserve
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
732 distinct species · 5 371 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 North Fork Eel River : 18 espèces reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.6%, 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°
10,5°C
Annual rain
1 301mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
958mm/an
PET
1 216mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
14,3°
Water table
497cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)