HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080580030
Bassin de Hot 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 2 administrative regions : Nye, White Pine
Sub-basin area
923,3km²
Upstream area
923,7km²
Discharge
2,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1 771m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 754.7 km²81.7% of basin
- 169.3 km²18.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Riordan's Well
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
40.95 km² overlap
Wayne E. Kirch
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
7.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
366 distinct species · 1 186 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Hot Creek : 20 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
265mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 236mm
AET
229mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
614cm
Forest
11%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)