HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080690200
Bassin de Salt 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 1 administrative regions : Chaves
Sub-basin area
165,3km²
Upstream area
6 837,4km²
Discharge
3,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 124m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #70806898901494 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo del Macho534 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 165.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bitter Lake
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
37.73 km² overlap
Salt Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Area
36.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
300 distinct species · 2 350 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Salt Creek : 35 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
321mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
271mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
294cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)