HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080633820
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
10,6km²
Upstream area
1 388,8km²
Discharge
11,51m³/s
Mean elev.
1 747m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kern River347 km²
- Bassin de Rattlesnake Creek143 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 10.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
6.52 km² overlap
Kern, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
1.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
184 distinct species · 351 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 : 38 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
524mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
1 141mm
AET
442mm
Mean slope
18,3°
Water table
844cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
61%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)