HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080625810
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 : Inyo, Tulare
Sub-basin area
1 253,5km²
Upstream area
7 708,9km²
Discharge
17,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 805m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Owens River441 km²
- Bassin de Los Angeles Aqueduct303 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1249.3 km²99.6% of basin
- 4.6 km²0.4% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
John Muir
IUCN IbWilderness
223.45 km² overlap
Inyo Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
144.35 km² overlap
Inyo Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
83.75 km² overlap
Symmes Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
35.40 km² overlap
Independence Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
26.23 km² overlap
Southern Inyo
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
18.86 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
5.62 km² overlap
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
5.01 km² overlap
Manzanar
IUCN IIINational Historic Site
3.29 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
1.44 km² overlap
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
0.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 847 distinct species · 126 574 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 22 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
10,7°C
Annual rain
306mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
1 218mm
AET
244mm
Mean slope
12,0°
Water table
482cm
Forest
10%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)