HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080560380
Bassin de Butte 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 6 administrative regions : Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Sutter +1
Sub-basin area
1 697,4km²
Upstream area
1 697,5km²
Discharge
22,88m³/s
Mean elev.
325m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Butte1380.4 km²81.2% of basin
- 138.7 km²8.2% of basin
- 91.0 km²5.4% of basin
- 54.8 km²3.2% of basin
- 30.9 km²1.8% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.2% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Butte Sink
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
42.66 km² overlap
Upper Butte Basin
IUCN VWildlife Area
36.04 km² overlap
Gray Lodge
IUCN VWildlife Area
31.88 km² overlap
North Central Valley
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
22.80 km² overlap
North Table Mountain
IUCN VEcological Reserve
12.47 km² overlap
Dove Ridge
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
9.70 km² overlap
Reserve Program
7.55 km² overlap
Reserve Program
5.69 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.17 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Glenn, C.
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.65 km² overlap
Us-Ca-147-14
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.64 km² overlap
Us-Ca-147-13
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.40 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.93 km² overlap
BCAG Vernal Pool
IUCN Not AssignedPreserve
1.77 km² overlap
Butte Creek House
IUCN VEcological Reserve
1.32 km² overlap
Butte Creek Canyon
IUCN VEcological Reserve
1.14 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
1.08 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.76 km² overlap
Butte Sink
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.48 km² overlap
Colusa Bypass
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.36 km² overlap
BCAG Freshwater Marsh
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Coon Hollow
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 414 distinct species · 485 707 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Butte Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
14,9°C
Annual rain
765mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
386mm/an
PET
1 344mm
AET
543mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
187cm
Forest
52%
Crops
44%
Urban
3%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)