HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080548690

Bassin de Big Chico 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 : Butte, Glenn, Tehama

Pfafstetter: 77449301

Sub-basin area

456,9km²

Upstream area

31 482,8km²

Discharge

307,02m³/s

Mean elev.

494m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Sacramento River163 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Sacramento River610 km²
Bassin de Pine Creek532 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Butte
California · United States
360.0 km²
78.7% of basin
Tehama
California · United States
86.0 km²
18.8% of basin
Glenn
California · United States
11.4 km²
2.5% of basin

15 intersecting protected areas

Big Chico Creek
IUCN V
Ecological Reserve
16.51 km² overlap
Big Chico Creek
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
11.10 km² overlap
Big Chico Creek, Expansion 1
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
5.07 km² overlap
Sacramento River
IUCN IV
National Wildlife Refuge
3.87 km² overlap
Bidwell Ranch
IUCN V
Preserve
3.06 km² overlap
Stone Ridge
IUCN V
Ecological Reserve
3.03 km² overlap
Sacramento River
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
1.92 km² overlap
Foothill
IUCN V
Preserve
1.47 km² overlap
Sacramento River Megasite
IUCN V
Easement
0.68 km² overlap

6 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Sacramento River
IUCN V
Private Conservation
0.53 km² overlap
Sacramento River
IUCN V
National Wildlife Refuge
0.09 km² overlap
Meriam Park
IUCN V
Preserve
0.08 km² overlap
Preserve Areas
IUCN V
Preserve
0.08 km² overlap
Eaton Road
IUCN V
Preserve
0.02 km² overlap
Wildwood Estate
IUCN V
Preserve
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 589 distinct species · 242 182 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 39 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Big Chico Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.124

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

14,2°C

Annual rain

882mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,32

Runoff

405mm/an

PET

1 312mm

AET

596mm

Mean slope

7,5°

Water table

323cm

Forest

85%

Crops

Urban

12%

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)