HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080664440
Bassin de Cottonwood 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 2 administrative regions : Kern, Los Angeles
Sub-basin area
116,9km²
Upstream area
117km²
Discharge
0,34m³/s
Mean elev.
1 271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 115.0 km²98.4% of basin
- 1.9 km²1.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tmv-A
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
489 distinct species · 2 500 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 51 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 Cottonwood Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 141 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 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°
13,1°C
Annual rain
338mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
106mm/an
PET
1 228mm
AET
289mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
469cm
Forest
29%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)