HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080626190
Bassin de North Fork Kaweah 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 : Tulare
Sub-basin area
363,7km²
Upstream area
363,7km²
Discharge
3,5m³/s
Mean elev.
1 481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 363.8 km²100.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
163.76 km² overlap
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
128.71 km² overlap
Giant Sequoia
IUCN VNational Monument
69.88 km² overlap
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
44.94 km² overlap
Sheep Ridge
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
20.30 km² overlap
Jennie Lakes
IUCN IbWilderness
14.27 km² overlap
Mitigation
IUCN VPreserve
5.97 km² overlap
Milk Ranch/Case Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 697 distinct species · 25 146 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 North Fork Kaweah River : 41 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.3%, 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
718mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
290mm/an
PET
1 173mm
AET
546mm
Mean slope
16,3°
Water table
644cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)