HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080617460
Bassin de Amargosa 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 : Nye
Sub-basin area
229,6km²
Upstream area
229,6km²
Discharge
0,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 229.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
102.56 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
16.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
346 distinct species · 1 459 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 53 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 Amargosa River : 36 espèces reliées par 139 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
14,9°C
Annual rain
131mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 421mm
AET
112mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
1 100cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)