World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · usa
Yosemite National Park
- Area
- 3 025 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 690 distinct species · 399 075 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Yosemite National Park : 31 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.7%, 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).
Hydrology13 basins · 18 lakes · 65 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
700,9km
Lake surface here
15,75km²
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 744km²
Discharge in basins
38,6m³/s
Mean precip.
854mm/an
Mean T°
5,3°C
Moisture idx
-0,05
Max snow
46%
Mean runoff
398mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 358m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Tuolumne Riversub-area1 284,6 km²overlap1242.85 km²41%
- Bassin de Merced Riversub-area1 080 km²overlap991.88 km²33%
- Bassin de South Fork Merced Riversub-area627,8 km²overlap302.35 km²10%
- Bassin de Middle Tuolumne Riversub-area395,5 km²overlap239.50 km²8%
- Bassin de Cherry Creeksub-area615,7 km²overlap237.49 km²8%
- Bassin de Rush Creeksub-area2 041 km²overlap4.51 km²0%
- Bassin de Robinson Creeksub-area442 km²overlap1.92 km²0%
- Bassin de West Fork Walker Riversub-area2 257,6 km²overlap1.20 km²0%
- Bassin de Merced Riversub-area238,4 km²overlap1.05 km²0%
Lakes (18, top by area)
- Hetch Hetchy Reservoirarea6,8 km²avg depth65.5 m
- Lake Eleanorarea4 km²avg depth8.9 m
- Lac 1058549area0,7 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 1058358area0,6 km²avg depth9.8 m
- Lac 1058226area0,6 km²avg depth7.8 m
- Lac 1058181area0,4 km²avg depth8.4 m
- Lac 1058581area0,4 km²avg depth7.6 m
- Lac 1058374area0,3 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 1058309area0,3 km²avg depth6.2 m
9 more lakes
- Lac 1058109area0,3 km²avg depth6.5 m
- Lac 1058219area0,2 km²avg depth5.7 m
- Lac 1058355area0,2 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 1058291area0,2 km²avg depth7.0 m
- Lac 1058166area0,2 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 1058164area0,2 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 1058305area0,2 km²avg depth7.5 m
- Lac 1058663area0,2 km²avg depth8.4 m
- Lac 1058271area0,2 km²avg depth5.2 m
Rivers / streams (65, ord ≥ 4)
- Tuolumne Riverord 5len here61.74 km20%total305 km
- Merced Riverord 4len here61.30 km23%total268 km
- Rancheria Creekord 3len here37.15 km41%total92 km
- South Fork Merced Riverord 3len here36.49 km60%total61 km
- Piute Creekord 2len here27.09 km48%total57 km
- Middle Tuolumne Riverord 2len here26.84 km57%total47 km
- Illilouette Creekord 2len here26.04 km100%total26 km
- Yosemite Creekord 3len here24.44 km100%total24 km
- Falls Creekord 2len here21.73 km100%total22 km
- Frog Creekord 1len here20.55 km100%total21 km
- South Fork Tuolumne Riverord 4len here19.29 km47%total41 km
- Return Creekord 2len here18.88 km100%total19 km
53 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Tenaya Creekord 2len here17.24 km100%total17 km
- Kendrick Creekord 1len here15.30 km100%total15 km
- Cathedral Creekord 2len here13.44 km100%total13 km
- Lyell Forkord 2len here13.33 km100%total13 km
- Dana Forkord 3len here13.32 km100%total13 km
- Conness Creekord 3len here12.86 km100%total13 km
- Cascade Creekord 1len here12.03 km78%total15 km
- Eleanor Creekord 2len here11.74 km100%total12 km
- Matterhorn Creekord 1len here10.94 km100%total11 km
- Kibbie Creekord 1len here10.26 km100%total10 km
- Tiltill Creekord 4len here8.61 km100%total9 km
- Cathedral Forkord 1len here8.52 km100%total9 km
- Chilnualna Creekord 1len here8.17 km100%total8 km
- Crane Creekord 3len here7.93 km27%total29 km
- Snow Creekord 2len here7.39 km23%total32 km
- Big Creekord 3len here7.31 km8%total90 km
- Alder Creekord 2len here7.00 km25%total28 km
- Fletcher Creekord 2len here7.00 km53%total13 km
- Rafferty Creekord 2len here6.80 km100%total7 km
- Echo Creekord 3len here6.69 km100%total7 km
- Spiller Creekord 1len here6.63 km100%total7 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 5len here6.62 km3%total198 km
- Hutchings Creekord 1len here6.00 km100%total6 km
- Tilden Creekord 1len here5.92 km100%total6 km
- Delaney Creekord 1len here5.81 km100%total6 km
- Emeric Creekord 1len here5.73 km100%total6 km
- Parker Pass Creekord 1len here5.32 km100%total5 km
- Bartlett Creekord 2len here4.76 km32%total15 km
- Red Creekord 1len here4.53 km35%total13 km
- Grouse Creekord 1len here4.16 km26%total16 km
- Miguel Creekord 1len here4.07 km100%total4 km
- Buck Creekord 2len here3.79 km27%total14 km
- Long Gulch Creekord 2len here3.75 km100%total4 km
- Indian Creekord 4len here3.35 km3%total116 km
- Indian Canyon Creekord 3len here3.26 km100%total3 km
- Johnson Creekord 3len here3.26 km19%total17 km
- Merced Peak Forkord 1len here3.13 km100%total3 km
- Alkali Creekord 2len here2.93 km100%total3 km
- Register Creekord 1len here2.92 km100%total3 km
- Tilden Canyon Creekord 1len here2.89 km100%total3 km
- North Crane Creekord 1len here2.78 km100%total3 km
- Red Peak Forkord 1len here2.66 km100%total3 km
- Kuna Creekord 1len here2.24 km100%total2 km
- McCabe Creekord 3len here2.24 km21%total11 km
- Ackerson Creekord 1len here2.21 km30%total7 km
- Hoover Creekord 1len here2.07 km100%total2 km
- Cherry Creekord 3len here1.98 km4%total45 km
- Bishop Creekord 1len here1.85 km43%total4 km
- Lewis Creekord 2len here1.77 km31%total6 km
- Buena Vista Creekord 1len here1.48 km100%total1 km
- Rush Creekord 3len here1.23 km3%total43 km
- Ribbon Creekord 1len here1.16 km100%total1 km
- Grizzly Creekord 3len here0.99 km1%total70 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
- 37.84013, -119.51662
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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.