HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080012800
Bassin de Santa Clara 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 1 administrative regions : Ventura
Sub-basin area
523km²
Upstream area
4 223,2km²
Discharge
26,35m³/s
Mean elev.
395m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sespe Creek676 km²
- Bassin de Santa Clara River158 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 522.7 km²100.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Sespe
IUCN IbWilderness
35.30 km² overlap
Harmon Canyon
IUCN VPreserve
7.53 km² overlap
Middle Santa Clara River
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
6.81 km² overlap
Lower Santa Clara River
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
2.64 km² overlap
Santa Clara River Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.31 km² overlap
Santa Clara River
IUCN VEasement
0.01 km² overlap
City Of Santa Paula
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 982 distinct species · 342 911 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Santa Clara River : 30 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
15,1°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 281mm
AET
397mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
450cm
Forest
79%
Crops
25%
Urban
14%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)