HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080554890
Bassin de Steptoe 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 : White Pine
Sub-basin area
1 720,8km²
Upstream area
1 720,8km²
Discharge
5,26m³/s
Mean elev.
2 241m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1722.2 km²100.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Mount Grafton
IUCN IbWilderness Area
43.75 km² overlap
High Schells
IUCN IbWilderness
33.40 km² overlap
Bristlecone
IUCN IbWilderness Area
28.21 km² overlap
Steptoe Valley
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
25.48 km² overlap
South Egan Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
6.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 269 distinct species · 25 030 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Steptoe Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 139 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.0%, 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
336mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
1 080mm
AET
292mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
805cm
Forest
47%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)