HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080633380
Bassin de Kern 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 : Tulare
Sub-basin area
346,6km²
Upstream area
1 234,7km²
Discharge
10,4m³/s
Mean elev.
2 466m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Golden Trout Creek183 km²
- Bassin de Rattlesnake Creek115 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 346.7 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
290.43 km² overlap
Sequoia
IUCN IINational Park
30.53 km² overlap
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
30.52 km² overlap
Kern, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
11.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
632 distinct species · 2 710 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Kern River : 32 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.5%, 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°
6,1°C
Annual rain
602mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
230mm/an
PET
920mm
AET
475mm
Mean slope
17,8°
Water table
716cm
Forest
98%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
92%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)