HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080013110
Bassin de Little Sur 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 : Monterey
Sub-basin area
289,7km²
Upstream area
289,7km²
Discharge
0,17m³/s
Mean elev.
492m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 281.4 km²97.1% of basin
18 intersecting protected areas
Ventana
IUCN IbWilderness
64.26 km² overlap
Joshua Creek Canyon
IUCN VEcological Reserve
19.22 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
12.33 km² overlap
Santa Lucia
IUCN VPreserve
9.37 km² overlap
Mill Creek Redwood
IUCN VPreserve
5.61 km² overlap
Point Lobos State
IUCN VNatural Reserve
4.61 km² overlap
Mitteldorf
IUCN VPreserve
4.15 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
3.49 km² overlap
Glen Deven Ranch
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
3.20 km² overlap
9 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Marine Protected Area
1.74 km² overlap
Easement
0.13 km² overlap
Canavarro
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.11 km² overlap
California Coastal
IUCN VNational Monument
0.08 km² overlap
Curtis
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.08 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.03 km² overlap
Notley's Landing
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.03 km² overlap
Laidlaw-Apte Pine
IUCN VForest Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Highlands Inn turnout
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 513 distinct species · 569 303 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 Little Sur River : 23 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
782mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 063mm
AET
577mm
Mean slope
16,9°
Water table
576cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)