HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080609230
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 1 administrative regions : Inyo
Sub-basin area
62,1km²
Upstream area
5 330,9km²
Discharge
28,84m³/s
Mean elev.
1 458m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Owens River624 km²
- Bassin de Baker Creek208 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 62.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Crater Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
10.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
826 distinct species · 15 044 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 101 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 18.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
12,3°C
Annual rain
190mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
189mm/an
PET
1 375mm
AET
163mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
356cm
Forest
15%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)