HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080593880
Bassin de Leidy 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 3 administrative regions : Esmeralda, Inyo, Mono
Sub-basin area
974km²
Upstream area
1 569,5km²
Discharge
2,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 992m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080600600447 km²
- Bassin de Cottonwood Creek148 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 568.2 km²58.3% of basin
- 406.2 km²41.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
376.47 km² overlap
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
91.29 km² overlap
Silver Peak Range
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
58.35 km² overlap
Mcafee Meadow
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
9.42 km² overlap
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
0.11 km² overlap
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 268 distinct species · 47 248 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Leidy Creek : 28 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.2%, 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°
8,3°C
Annual rain
202mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 180mm
AET
172mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
577cm
Forest
23%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)