HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080655530

Bassin de El Paso Creek

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 1 administrative regions : Kern

EndorheicPfafstetter: 77440207

Sub-basin area

1 704,9km²

Upstream area

2 520,1km²

Discharge

5,87m³/s

Mean elev.

868m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kern Island Drain2 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Caliente Creek487 km²
Bassin de Tehachapi Creek328 km²

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Kern
California · United States
1704.8 km²
100.0% of basin

9 intersecting protected areas

Tmv-A
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
149.54 km² overlap
Old Headquarters
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
108.13 km² overlap
White Wolf
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
62.54 km² overlap
Tollhouse Ranch
IUCN V
Private Conservation
47.18 km² overlap
Caliente
IUCN V
Easement
10.69 km² overlap
Caliente Ranch
IUCN V
Private Conservation
9.39 km² overlap
Sand Ridge
IUCN V
Preserve
1.03 km² overlap
Bakersfield Cactus
IUCN V
Ecological Reserve
0.91 km² overlap
Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, Cummings
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.46 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 153 distinct species · 49 999 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 39 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de El Paso Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.131

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

15,1°C

Annual rain

322mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,75

Runoff

69mm/an

PET

1 355mm

AET

272mm

Mean slope

10,4°

Water table

514cm

Forest

35%

Crops

20%

Urban

Protected

10%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)