HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080644930
Bassin de South Fork 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 3 administrative regions : Inyo, Kern, Tulare
Sub-basin area
2 500,8km²
Upstream area
2 501,3km²
Discharge
10,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 957m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1441.2 km²57.6% of basin
- 1048.0 km²41.9% of basin
- 12.0 km²0.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Domeland
IUCN IbWilderness
380.70 km² overlap
Golden Trout
IUCN IbWilderness
217.87 km² overlap
South Sierra
IUCN IbWilderness
201.30 km² overlap
Domeland
IUCN IbWilderness Area
162.26 km² overlap
Kiavah
IUCN IbWilderness
134.98 km² overlap
Owens Peak
IUCN IbWilderness Area
105.11 km² overlap
Kiavah
IUCN IbWilderness Area
90.48 km² overlap
Sacatar Trail
IUCN IbWilderness Area
73.21 km² overlap
Chimney Peak
IUCN IbWilderness Area
53.59 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Kern, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
52.90 km² overlap
Bright Star
IUCN IbWilderness Area
35.45 km² overlap
Canebrake
IUCN VEcological Reserve
29.84 km² overlap
Long Canyon
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
8.63 km² overlap
Kern, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
6.72 km² overlap
Church Dome
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
6.11 km² overlap
Private Conservation
5.54 km² overlap
Easement
4.89 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.87 km² overlap
South Fork
IUCN VWildlife Area
4.66 km² overlap
Owens Peak
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
3.79 km² overlap
Scodie
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.50 km² overlap
Private Conservation
1.22 km² overlap
Sacatar Meadows
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.21 km² overlap
Private Conservation
1.07 km² overlap
Monache Meadows
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.00 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.72 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.70 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.63 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.57 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 100 distinct species · 375 785 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 South Fork Kern River : 29 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
125mm/an
PET
1 099mm
AET
387mm
Mean slope
12,9°
Water table
653cm
Forest
66%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)