HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080013550
Bassin de Contra Costa Canal
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 3 administrative regions : Contra Costa, Sacramento, Solano
Sub-basin area
103,8km²
Upstream area
124 352,6km²
Discharge
1 179,15m³/s
Mean elev.
86m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 6 basins
- Bassin de Kings River1709 km²
- Bassin de Old River1622 km²
- Bassin de San Diego Creek1070 km²
- Bassin de Sacramento River162 km²
- Bassin · #708008427058 km²
- + 1 more
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 72.0 km²69.4% of basin
- 15.0 km²14.4% of basin
- 4.0 km²3.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Preserve
10.87 km² overlap
Clayton Ranch Regional
IUCN VPreserve
0.39 km² overlap
Black Diamond Mines
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 643 distinct species · 79 777 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Contra Costa Canal : 35 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
429mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
234mm/an
PET
1 279mm
AET
363mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
224cm
Forest
20%
Crops
5%
Urban
32%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)