HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080628560
Bassin de Rattlesnake 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 1 administrative regions : Tulare
Sub-basin area
115,3km²
Upstream area
704,8km²
Discharge
5,84m³/s
Mean elev.
2 908m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kern River454 km²
- Bassin de Big Arroyo135 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 115.3 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
114.14 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
114.04 km² overlap
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
1.17 km² overlap
John Krebs
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
249 distinct species · 485 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Rattlesnake Creek : 33 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
3,4°C
Annual rain
683mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
790mm
AET
476mm
Mean slope
21,1°
Water table
1 095cm
Forest
70%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)