HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080638620
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, San Bernardino
Sub-basin area
535,7km²
Upstream area
535,8km²
Discharge
0,16m³/s
Mean elev.
760m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.4 km²54.4% of basin
- 244.3 km²45.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
370.65 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
368.37 km² overlap
Private Conservation
1.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
55 distinct species · 80 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 : 15 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
18,4°C
Annual rain
98mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 586mm
AET
82mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
660cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
69%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)