National Park · usa
Kings Canyon
- Area
- 1 858 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1940
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1940
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 098 distinct species · 29 825 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Kings Canyon : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology16 basins · 26 lakes · 53 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
374,8km
Lake surface here
5,49km²
Basins crossed
16
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
7 709km²
Discharge in basins
20,1m³/s
Mean precip.
654mm/an
Mean T°
3,6°C
Moisture idx
-0,15
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
318mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 833m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de South Fork Kings Riversub-area1 231,8 km²overlap993.85 km²53%
- Bassin de Middle Fork Kings Riversub-area819,9 km²overlap624.18 km²34%
- Bassin de South Fork San Joaquin Riversub-area677,5 km²overlap169.27 km²9%
- Bassin de North Fork Kaweah Riversub-area363,7 km²overlap44.94 km²2%
- Bassin de Mill Flat Creeksub-area412,9 km²overlap13.08 km²1%
- Bassin de Lewis Creeksub-area1 825 km²overlap3.42 km²0%
- Bassin de Owens Riversub-area440,8 km²overlap1.97 km²0%
- Bassin de North Fork Kings Riversub-area992,5 km²overlap1.50 km²0%
- Bassin de East Fork Kaweah Riversub-area715,6 km²overlap1.49 km²0%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Los Angeles Aqueductsub-area302,9 km²overlap1.22 km²0%
- Bassin de Bishop Creeksub-area321,5 km²overlap1.20 km²0%
- Bassin de Birch Creeksub-area137,1 km²overlap0.66 km²0%
- Bassin de Owens Riversub-area1 253,5 km²overlap0.62 km²0%
- Bassin de Baker Creeksub-area208,2 km²overlap0.54 km²0%
- Bassin de Kern Riversub-area454,4 km²overlap0.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Kings Riversub-area2 408,8 km²overlap0.11 km²0%
Lakes (26, top by area)
- Lac 1059314area0,6 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Lac 1059549area0,4 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 1059337area0,3 km²avg depth6.4 m
- Lac 1059309area0,3 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 1059449area0,3 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 1059235area0,3 km²avg depth8.6 m
- Lac 1059288area0,2 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 1059493area0,2 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 1059606area0,2 km²avg depth8.7 m
17 more lakes
- Lac 1059541area0,2 km²avg depth6.4 m
- Lac 1059319area0,2 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 1059490area0,2 km²avg depth8.6 m
- Lac 1059219area0,2 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 1059642area0,2 km²avg depth8.3 m
- Lac 1059494area0,2 km²avg depth7.6 m
- Lac 1059412area0,2 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 1059229area0,2 km²avg depth7.0 m
- Lac 1059218area0,2 km²avg depth7.8 m
- Lac 1059359area0,2 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 1059386area0,2 km²avg depth7.6 m
- Lac 1059331area0,1 km²avg depth6.4 m
- Lac 1059595area0,1 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 1059395area0,1 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 1059353area0,1 km²avg depth7.5 m
- Lac 1059336area0,1 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 1059351area0,1 km²avg depth5.6 m
Rivers / streams (53, ord ≥ 4)
- South Fork Kings Riverord 4len here39.52 km68%total58 km
- Middle Fork Kings Riverord 3len here37.36 km72%total52 km
- Roaring Riverord 3len here24.80 km63%total40 km
- Woods Creekord 3len here19.60 km47%total42 km
- Bubbs Creekord 2len here19.22 km100%total19 km
- South Fork San Joaquin Riverord 4len here14.13 km26%total54 km
- Goddard Creekord 2len here12.41 km100%total12 km
- North Goddard Creekord 2len here11.47 km100%total11 km
- Palisade Creekord 2len here10.78 km60%total18 km
- Ferguson Creekord 2len here10.64 km100%total11 km
- Sugarloaf Creekord 2len here9.80 km61%total16 km
- Gardiner Creekord 3len here9.55 km100%total10 km
41 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Blue Canyon Creekord 1len here9.27 km100%total9 km
- East Fork Dougherty Creekord 2len here8.88 km100%total9 km
- Redwood Creekord 2len here8.81 km77%total11 km
- Disappearing Creekord 1len here8.67 km100%total9 km
- Cartridge Creekord 2len here8.53 km100%total9 km
- Dusy Branchord 2len here8.48 km100%total8 km
- Granite Creekord 2len here8.02 km63%total13 km
- Evolution Creekord 1len here7.22 km100%total7 km
- Copper Creekord 3len here6.03 km100%total6 km
- East Creekord 2len here5.78 km18%total32 km
- East Fork Sugarloaf Creekord 1len here4.98 km100%total5 km
- South Fork Sugarloaf Creekord 1len here4.66 km100%total5 km
- Table Creekord 1len here4.16 km100%total4 km
- Crown Creekord 2len here3.97 km22%total18 km
- Lewis Creekord 2len here3.87 km69%total6 km
- Sphinx Creekord 1len here3.73 km100%total4 km
- Barton Creekord 2len here3.67 km100%total4 km
- Darwin Creekord 2len here3.63 km100%total4 km
- North Fork Kaweah Riverord 2len here3.60 km12%total30 km
- Comb Creekord 1len here3.49 km100%total3 km
- Kennedy Creekord 2len here3.36 km22%total15 km
- South Fork Woods Creekord 1len here3.33 km100%total3 km
- Horseshoe Creekord 1len here3.28 km41%total8 km
- Charlotte Creekord 1len here3.23 km100%total3 km
- Dog Creekord 2len here3.13 km19%total16 km
- Moraine Creekord 1len here3.01 km100%total3 km
- Arrow Creekord 2len here2.32 km100%total2 km
- Cunningham Creekord 1len here2.27 km100%total2 km
- Glacier Creekord 1len here2.21 km100%total2 km
- Sheep Creekord 1len here1.81 km100%total2 km
- Dougherty Creekord 3len here1.65 km100%total2 km
- Brewer Creekord 2len here1.64 km14%total12 km
- Slide Creekord 2len here1.39 km46%total3 km
- Middle Fork Dougherty Creekord 1len here0.89 km100%total1 km
- Stony Creekord 2len here0.80 km21%total4 km
- Kid Creekord 1len here0.56 km99%total1 km
- Piute Creekord 2len here0.38 km1%total57 km
- Deer Cove Creekord 4len here0.31 km6%total5 km
- Rodgers Creekord 1len here0.25 km7%total4 km
- Dorst Creekord 1len here0.19 km3%total6 km
- Sallie Keyes Creekord 3len here0.10 km1%total12 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 36.91524, -118.60773
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.