HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080686220
Bassin de Pinto 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 : Riverside, San Bernardino
Sub-basin area
871,2km²
Upstream area
1 781,5km²
Discharge
0,32m³/s
Mean elev.
538m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pinto Wash658 km²
- Bassin de Smoke Tree Wash252 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 794.5 km²91.2% of basin
- 76.4 km²8.8% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Joshua Tree
IUCN IINational Park
652.47 km² overlap
Joshua Tree
IUCN IbWilderness Area
581.45 km² overlap
Pinto Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
8.99 km² overlap
Sheephole Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2.19 km² overlap
Mojave Trails
IUCN VNational Monument
2.18 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
426 distinct species · 1 661 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 56 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 Pinto Wash : 41 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 126 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
116mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 630mm
AET
97mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
748cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
81%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)