HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080546170
Bassin de Truckee Canal
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 : Churchill, Lyon
Sub-basin area
591,4km²
Upstream area
591,4km²
Discharge
0,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 559.4 km²94.5% of basin
- Lyon32.6 km²5.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Stillwater
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
242 distinct species · 718 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Truckee Canal : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 142 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
135mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 339mm
AET
116mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
533cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)