HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080645380
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
2 150,5km²
Upstream area
8 892,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
804m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rock Valley Wash2119 km²
- Bassin de Amargosa River727 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1923.4 km²89.4% of basin
- 227.5 km²10.6% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Death Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
552.36 km² overlap
Death Valley
IUCN IINational Park
536.05 km² overlap
Nopah Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
275.05 km² overlap
Resting Spring Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
255.45 km² overlap
Ibex
IUCN IbWilderness Area
121.37 km² overlap
Kingston Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
111.20 km² overlap
South Nopah Range
IUCN IbWilderness Area
74.02 km² overlap
Pahrump Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
45.42 km² overlap
Easement
0.98 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Saddle Peak Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.86 km² overlap
Amargosa River
IUCN VPreserve
0.32 km² overlap
Amargosa River
IUCN VPreserve
0.17 km² overlap
Amargosa - Tecopa Hot Springs, Expansion 3
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 442 distinct species · 64 228 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
17,9°C
Annual rain
111mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
93mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
843cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
72%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)