HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080013020

Bassin de San Luis Obispo Creek

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 : San Luis Obispo

Pfafstetter: 77419004

Sub-basin area

214,7km²

Upstream area

214,7km²

Discharge

1,5m³/s

Mean elev.

186m

Administrative coverage

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

San Luis Obispo
California · United States
214.6 km²
100.0% of basin

8 intersecting protected areas

Irish Hills
IUCN V
Natural Reserve
4.61 km² overlap
Conservation
IUCN Not Assigned
Easement
3.91 km² overlap
Santa Lucia
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
1.57 km² overlap
Irish Hills - Morro Bay
IUCN V
Easement
1.54 km² overlap
Hibberd Property Site
IUCN V
Easement
0.86 km² overlap
Black Butte
IUCN Ia
Research Natural Area
0.64 km² overlap
Lower San Luis Obispo Creek
IUCN V
Wetland Preserve
0.10 km² overlap
Tnc
IUCN V
Private Conservation
0.03 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 526 distinct species · 383 907 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 44 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de San Luis Obispo Creek : 32 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.096

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

14,3°C

Annual rain

579mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,53

Runoff

174mm/an

PET

1 233mm

AET

492mm

Mean slope

9,1°

Water table

474cm

Forest

57%

Crops

16%

Urban

17%

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)