HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080616100
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 : Fresno, Inyo
Sub-basin area
440,8km²
Upstream area
6 152,3km²
Discharge
29,12m³/s
Mean elev.
1 786m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Birch Creek137 km²
- Bassin de Owens River71 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 439.2 km²99.6% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
John Muir
IUCN IbWilderness
77.13 km² overlap
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
1.97 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1.96 km² overlap
Inyo Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 178 distinct species · 50 985 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 74 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.0%, 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°
10,5°C
Annual rain
270mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
1 236mm
AET
224mm
Mean slope
11,9°
Water table
497cm
Forest
13%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)