HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080582000
Bassin de Virginia 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 : Mono, Tuolumne
Sub-basin area
448,3km²
Upstream area
448,4km²
Discharge
3,14m³/s
Mean elev.
2 459m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 448.1 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Bodie Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
103.38 km² overlap
Hoover
IUCN IbWilderness
43.84 km² overlap
Bridgeport Valley Conservation Easement (Lacey Wood Centennial)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
10.03 km² overlap
Mount Biedeman
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
8.26 km² overlap
Reserve Program
7.88 km² overlap
Mormon Meadows
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
3.18 km² overlap
Green Creek
IUCN VWildlife Area
2.87 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.81 km² overlap
Yosemite
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.36 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Yosemite National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.35 km² overlap
Yosemite
IUCN IINational Park
0.24 km² overlap
Green Creek Powerhouse
IUCN VPreserve
0.16 km² overlap
Bodie
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 453 distinct species · 31 887 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Virginia Creek : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
4,2°C
Annual rain
465mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
241mm/an
PET
924mm
AET
375mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
482cm
Forest
78%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)