HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080649730
Bassin de 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 2 administrative regions : Kern, San Luis Obispo
Sub-basin area
1 677,9km²
Upstream area
6 951,5km²
Discharge
32,09m³/s
Mean elev.
707m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Fork Kern River2501 km²
- Bassin de Kern River1043 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1670.7 km²99.6% of basin
- 7.2 km²0.4% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Wilderness Study Area
20.68 km² overlap
Lokern
IUCN VPreserve
15.45 km² overlap
Lokern
IUCN VEcological Reserve
9.19 km² overlap
Tule Elk
IUCN VState Reserve
4.00 km² overlap
Panorama Vista
IUCN VPreserve
3.49 km² overlap
Bakersfield Cactus
IUCN VEcological Reserve
1.84 km² overlap
Hot Springs Valley
IUCN VWetlands
0.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 924 distinct species · 236 629 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
15,5°C
Annual rain
312mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 411mm
AET
263mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
521cm
Forest
31%
Crops
13%
Urban
7%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)