HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080602910
Bassin de Owens River
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
10,5km²
Upstream area
4 115,8km²
Discharge
23m³/s
Mean elev.
1 269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Owens River1978 km²
- Bassin de Spring Canyon Creek997 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 10.2 km²96.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²3.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
504 distinct species · 29 019 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Owens River : 23 espèces reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
13,1°C
Annual rain
153mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
162mm/an
PET
1 479mm
AET
130mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
129cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)