HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080600670
Bassin de Cottonwood 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 : Inyo, Mono
Sub-basin area
148,1km²
Upstream area
148,1km²
Discharge
0,33m³/s
Mean elev.
2 723m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 116.4 km²78.6% of basin
- 31.7 km²21.4% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
101.41 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
21.88 km² overlap
Forest
15.28 km² overlap
White Mountain
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
8.21 km² overlap
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
4.49 km² overlap
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
3.19 km² overlap
Piper Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
992 distinct species · 9 949 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Cottonwood Creek : 33 espèces reliées par 144 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
4,1°C
Annual rain
346mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
909mm
AET
291mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
706cm
Forest
49%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)