HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080640670
Bassin de Kern River Channel
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 : Kern, Kings
Sub-basin area
172,2km²
Upstream area
8 352,7km²
Discharge
31,85m³/s
Mean elev.
76m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 101.9 km²59.2% of basin
- Kings70.3 km²40.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kern
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
1.75 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
312 distinct species · 25 460 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Channel : 21 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
176mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
31mm/an
PET
1 576mm
AET
148mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
31cm
Forest
10%
Crops
23%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)