HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080638630
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
1 490,3km²
Upstream area
13 420,9km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
462m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Amargosa River2151 km²
- Bassin de Salt Creek55 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 883.3 km²59.3% of basin
- 607.2 km²40.7% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1132.02 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
1113.15 km² overlap
Avawatz Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
124.61 km² overlap
Saddle Peak Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Area
5.44 km² overlap
Kingston Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
3.84 km² overlap
Ibex
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2.72 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
731 distinct species · 7 444 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 54 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 : 37 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
79mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
65mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
725cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
74%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)