Marine Protected Area · usa
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
- Area
- 8 544 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1981
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1981
- Managing authority
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; State Fish and Wildlife ; Regional Agency Land
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
6 387 distinct species · 1 953 805 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 0 lakes · 10 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
5,2km
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
3 851km²
Discharge in basins
0,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 037mm/an
Mean T°
12,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,05
Max snow
9%
Mean runoff
667mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
172m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Sonoma Creeksub-area2 478,4 km²overlap31.93 km²0%
- Bassin de Russian Gulchsub-area144,6 km²overlap17.75 km²0%
- Bassin de Garcia Riversub-area703,5 km²overlap10.82 km²0%
- Bassin de Gualala River - Wheatfield Forksub-area769,3 km²overlap0.09 km²0%
- Bassin de Russian Riversub-area479,7 km²overlap0.09 km²0%
Rivers / streams (10, ord ≥ 4)
- Pine Gulch Creekord 1len here3.47 km41%total9 km
- Walker Creekord 2len here1.05 km6%total18 km
- San Antonio Creekord 2len here0.46 km4%total13 km
- Gualala Riverord 4len here0.08 km0%total40 km
- Miller Creekord 1len here0.05 km4%total1 km
- Americano Creekord 2len here0.03 km0%total7 km
- Lagunitas Creekord 3len here0.03 km0%total29 km
- Russian Riverord 5len here0.00 km0%total234 km
- Galloway Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal3 km
- Olema Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal9 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
- 38.24726, -123.06538
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.