Wilderness Area · USA
Yosemite
- Area
- 2 850 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1984
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1984
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 225 distinct species · 138 979 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 Yosemite : 33 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology11 basins · 17 lakes · 61 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
592,5km
Lake surface here
4,40km²
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 744km²
Discharge in basins
36,2m³/s
Mean precip.
852mm/an
Mean T°
5,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,05
Max snow
46%
Mean runoff
398mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 369m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Tuolumne Riversub-area1 284,6 km²overlap1225.74 km²43%
- Bassin de Merced Riversub-area1 080 km²overlap901.63 km²32%
- Bassin de South Fork Merced Riversub-area627,8 km²overlap261.20 km²9%
- Bassin de Cherry Creeksub-area615,7 km²overlap233.70 km²8%
- Bassin de Middle Tuolumne Riversub-area395,5 km²overlap218.07 km²8%
- Bassin de Rush Creeksub-area2 041 km²overlap4.49 km²0%
- Bassin de Robinson Creeksub-area442 km²overlap2.04 km²0%
- Bassin de Middle Fork San Joaquin Riversub-area847,8 km²overlap1.24 km²0%
- Bassin de West Fork Walker Riversub-area2 257,6 km²overlap1.22 km²0%
2 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (17, top by area)
- Hetch Hetchy Reservoirarea6,8 km²avg depth65.5 m
- Lake Eleanorarea4 km²avg depth8.9 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
- Lac 1058109area0,3 km²avg depth6.5 m
8 more lakes
Rivers / streams (61, ord ≥ 4)
- Tuolumne Riverord 5len here49.66 km16%total305 km
- Rancheria Creekord 3len here37.15 km41%total92 km
- Merced Riverord 4len here36.36 km14%total268 km
- Piute Creekord 2len here27.09 km48%total57 km
- Middle Tuolumne Riverord 2len here25.91 km55%total47 km
- Illilouette Creekord 2len here25.86 km99%total26 km
- South Fork Merced Riverord 3len here24.84 km41%total61 km
- Falls Creekord 2len here21.73 km100%total22 km
- Frog Creekord 1len here20.29 km99%total21 km
- South Fork Tuolumne Riverord 4len here19.14 km46%total41 km
- Return Creekord 2len here18.88 km100%total19 km
- Yosemite Creekord 3len here17.06 km70%total24 km
49 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Kendrick Creekord 1len here15.30 km100%total15 km
- Cathedral Creekord 2len here13.44 km100%total13 km
- Lyell Forkord 2len here13.33 km100%total13 km
- Conness Creekord 3len here12.77 km99%total13 km
- Cascade Creekord 1len here11.75 km76%total15 km
- Matterhorn Creekord 1len here10.94 km100%total11 km
- Tenaya Creekord 2len here10.89 km63%total17 km
- Kibbie Creekord 1len here9.82 km96%total10 km
- Cathedral Forkord 1len here8.52 km100%total9 km
- Chilnualna Creekord 1len here8.16 km100%total8 km
- Snow Creekord 2len here7.39 km23%total32 km
- Dana Forkord 3len here7.24 km54%total13 km
- Fletcher Creekord 2len here7.00 km53%total13 km
- Eleanor Creekord 2len here6.95 km59%total12 km
- Rafferty Creekord 2len here6.80 km100%total7 km
- Spiller Creekord 1len here6.63 km100%total7 km
- Echo Creekord 3len here6.57 km98%total7 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 5len here6.51 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
- Tiltill Creekord 4len here5.73 km67%total9 km
- Parker Pass Creekord 1len here5.32 km100%total5 km
- Alder Creekord 2len here5.04 km18%total28 km
- Bartlett Creekord 2len here4.76 km32%total15 km
- Red Creekord 1len here4.53 km35%total13 km
- Buck Creekord 2len here3.92 km28%total14 km
- Long Gulch Creekord 2len here3.75 km100%total4 km
- Miguel Creekord 1len here3.61 km89%total4 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
- 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 here2.01 km4%total45 km
- North Crane Creekord 1len here1.93 km69%total3 km
- Lewis Creekord 2len here1.77 km31%total6 km
- Grouse Creekord 1len here1.61 km10%total16 km
- Buena Vista Creekord 1len here1.48 km100%total1 km
- Indian Canyon Creekord 3len here1.40 km43%total3 km
- Grizzly Creekord 3len here1.05 km2%total70 km
- Ribbon Creekord 1len here0.58 km50%total1 km
- Big Creekord 3len here0.06 km0%total90 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
- 37.97109, -119.60380
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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.