HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080616290
Bassin de South 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 3 administrative regions : Fresno, Inyo, Tulare
Sub-basin area
1 231,8km²
Upstream area
1 232,3km²
Discharge
12,59m³/s
Mean elev.
2 850m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 790.5 km²64.2% of basin
- 437.2 km²35.5% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.4% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
993.85 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
988.35 km² overlap
Giant Sequoia
IUCN VNational Monument
140.54 km² overlap
Monarch
IUCN IbWilderness
96.99 km² overlap
Jennie Lakes
IUCN IbWilderness
28.07 km² overlap
Kings, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
12.02 km² overlap
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
6.56 km² overlap
Kings, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
3.05 km² overlap
John Muir
IUCN IbWilderness
2.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 340 distinct species · 31 743 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 South Fork Kings River : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
3,6°C
Annual rain
659mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
304mm/an
PET
804mm
AET
472mm
Mean slope
21,3°
Water table
891cm
Forest
72%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
92%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)