HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080683720
Bassin de Temescal Wash
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 : Orange, Riverside
Sub-basin area
761,8km²
Upstream area
2 609,3km²
Discharge
11,79m³/s
Mean elev.
494m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Salt Creek360 km²
- Bassin de San Jacinto River141 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 749.8 km²98.5% of basin
- Orange11.7 km²1.5% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Reserve
52.15 km² overlap
Alberhill
IUCN VConservation Area
11.06 km² overlap
Harford Springs
IUCN VReserve
2.12 km² overlap
Reserve
1.39 km² overlap
North Peak
IUCN VPreserve
0.78 km² overlap
San Mateo Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness
0.69 km² overlap
Mesa Grande
IUCN VEasement
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 086 distinct species · 216 228 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Temescal Wash : 24 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
403mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
128mm/an
PET
1 445mm
AET
340mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
485cm
Forest
33%
Crops
7%
Urban
37%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)