HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080607270
Bassin de Big 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 1 administrative regions : Fresno
Sub-basin area
340,9km²
Upstream area
340,9km²
Discharge
4m³/s
Mean elev.
2 406m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 341.1 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Dinkey Lakes
IUCN IbWilderness
43.45 km² overlap
Kaiser
IUCN IbWilderness
40.86 km² overlap
John Muir
IUCN IbWilderness
37.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 691 distinct species · 36 970 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Big Creek : 32 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.6%, 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°
5,5°C
Annual rain
780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
372mm/an
PET
893mm
AET
525mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
519cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)