HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080686660
Bassin de Meta Ditch
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 : Riverside
Sub-basin area
305,6km²
Upstream area
2 635,4km²
Discharge
0,22m³/s
Mean elev.
291m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pinto Wash871 km²
- Bassin de Ajax Ditch548 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 305.5 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Chuckwalla Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
53.11 km² overlap
Joshua Tree
IUCN IbWilderness Area
34.22 km² overlap
Joshua Tree
IUCN IINational Park
33.56 km² overlap
Red Bluff
IUCN Not AssignedPreserve
2.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
897 distinct species · 85 762 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 Meta Ditch : 29 espèces reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
90mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
74mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
604cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)