HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080593860
Bassin de Spring Canyon 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 : Mineral, Mono
Sub-basin area
817,5km²
Upstream area
817,8km²
Discharge
3,62m³/s
Mean elev.
2 259m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 788.9 km²96.4% of basin
- Mineral29.1 km²3.6% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Granite Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
87.87 km² overlap
Wilderness
9.89 km² overlap
Reserve Program
6.40 km² overlap
Sentinel Meadow
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
4.54 km² overlap
River Spring Lakes
IUCN VEcological Reserve
2.54 km² overlap
Black Lake
IUCN VPreserve
2.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 306 distinct species · 24 499 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 Spring Canyon Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 14.6%, 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°
5,9°C
Annual rain
293mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
159mm/an
PET
1 024mm
AET
256mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
440cm
Forest
42%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)