HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080628030
Bassin de Amargosa 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 : Inyo
Sub-basin area
455,2km²
Upstream area
15 805,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
515m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Copper Canyon296 km²
- Bassin de Amargosa River34 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 455.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
450.14 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
447.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
611 distinct species · 4 932 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 52 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 Amargosa River : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 129 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
94mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
78mm
Mean slope
11,8°
Water table
572cm
Forest
10%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)