HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080631030
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 2 administrative regions : Inyo, Nye
Sub-basin area
727,4km²
Upstream area
4 622,7km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
843m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fortymile Canyon911 km²
- Bassin de Amargosa River46 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 555.1 km²76.3% of basin
- 172.4 km²23.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
118.70 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
111.23 km² overlap
Funeral Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
102.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
603 distinct species · 10 047 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 28 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.0%, 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
109mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 558mm
AET
92mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
710cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)