HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080616160
Bassin de Middle Fork Kings 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
819,9km²
Upstream area
819,9km²
Discharge
8,92m³/s
Mean elev.
2 873m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 818.6 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
624.19 km² overlap
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
624.18 km² overlap
John Muir
IUCN IbWilderness
115.66 km² overlap
Monarch
IUCN IbWilderness
80.14 km² overlap
Kings, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
7.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 118 distinct species · 5 656 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 Middle Fork Kings River : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.8%, 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°
3,3°C
Annual rain
639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
332mm/an
PET
795mm
AET
465mm
Mean slope
22,5°
Water table
890cm
Forest
70%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)