HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080635290
Bassin de Las Vegas 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 : Clark, Mohave
Sub-basin area
729,2km²
Upstream area
4 432,6km²
Discharge
0,89m³/s
Mean elev.
628m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Duck Creek642 km²
- Bassin de Sloan Channel23 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Clark728.1 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Lake Mead
IUCN VNational Recreation Area
164.36 km² overlap
Muddy Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
53.11 km² overlap
Sloan Canyon
IUCN VNational Conservation Area
14.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 531 distinct species · 677 039 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Las Vegas Wash : 27 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
116mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 527mm
AET
98mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
865cm
Forest
8%
Crops
0%
Urban
12%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)