HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080012950
Bassin de Santa Maria 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 : San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara
Sub-basin area
8,8km²
Upstream area
4 726,6km²
Discharge
19,76m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080660980302 km²
- Bassin de Santa Maria River239 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.0 km²79.8% of basin
- 1.7 km²19.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
1.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
533 distinct species · 26 013 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Maria River : 20 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
381mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
1 073mm
AET
328mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
239cm
Forest
4%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)