HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080631040
Bassin de Rock Valley Wash
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
2 118,9km²
Upstream area
2 118,9km²
Discharge
0,11m³/s
Mean elev.
991m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2045.9 km²96.5% of basin
- 73.6 km²3.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Ash Meadows
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
98.52 km² overlap
Spring Mountains
IUCN VNational Recreation Area
20.36 km² overlap
Resting Springs
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
12.69 km² overlap
Mount Stirling
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
7.15 km² overlap
Resting Spring Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
5.33 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 790 distinct species · 99 083 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 Rock Valley Wash : 36 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
16,6°C
Annual rain
131mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 500mm
AET
111mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
880cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)