HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080689260
Bassin de Calada 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 2 administrative regions : Imperial, Riverside
Sub-basin area
952,1km²
Upstream area
952,1km²
Discharge
0,14m³/s
Mean elev.
263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 858.0 km²90.2% of basin
- 93.7 km²9.8% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Palen/Mccoy
IUCN IbWilderness Area
156.82 km² overlap
Little Chuckwalla Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
95.88 km² overlap
Private Conservation
1.18 km² overlap
Preserve
0.65 km² overlap
Palo Verde Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
698 distinct species · 7 050 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 Calada Ditch : 37 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 125 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
88mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 719mm
AET
73mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
941cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)