HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080624520
Bassin de Fowler Switch Canal
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 : Fresno
Sub-basin area
861,7km²
Upstream area
8 187,1km²
Discharge
52,3m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kings River2409 km²
- Bassin de Los Gatos Creek1459 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 861.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
6.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
647 distinct species · 5 432 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Fowler Switch Canal : 32 espèces reliées par 141 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 14.2%, 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
52mm/an
PET
1 520mm
AET
191mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
12cm
Forest
28%
Crops
67%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)