HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080627540
Bassin de Salt Creek
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, Nye
Sub-basin area
1 077,6km²
Upstream area
4 786,8km²
Discharge
1,94m³/s
Mean elev.
539m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salt Creek364 km²
- Bassin · #708062210091 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1077.9 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
1068.75 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
939.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 292 distinct species · 109 315 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 Salt Creek : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
19,7°C
Annual rain
89mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 637mm
AET
74mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
672cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)