HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080626200
Bassin de East 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
715,6km²
Upstream area
715,6km²
Discharge
6,68m³/s
Mean elev.
2 120m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 715.8 km²100.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
624.83 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
409.45 km² overlap
John Krebs
IUCN IbWilderness Area
131.78 km² overlap
Milk Ranch/Case Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
22.47 km² overlap
Kings Canyon
IUCN IINational Park
1.49 km² overlap
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
0.27 km² overlap
Jennie Lakes
IUCN IbWilderness
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 740 distinct species · 140 736 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 East Fork Kaweah River : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
255mm/an
PET
1 000mm
AET
509mm
Mean slope
20,6°
Water table
780cm
Forest
89%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)