HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080012270
Bassin de Tijuana River
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : San Diego, Tijuana
Sub-basin area
160,4km²
Upstream area
4 432,8km²
Discharge
8,4m³/s
Mean elev.
113m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cottonwood Creek1391 km²
- Bassin de Río Tijuana86 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.4 km²59.5% of basin
- 64.8 km²40.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
7.05 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
2.92 km² overlap
Tijuana Slough
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.87 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.09 km² overlap
Newport 5
IUCN VPreserve
0.02 km² overlap
Otay Mesa
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 703 distinct species · 344 028 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Tijuana River : 18 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
16,9°C
Annual rain
236mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 222mm
AET
203mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
496cm
Forest
15%
Crops
4%
Urban
91%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)