HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080013930
Bassin de Caspar 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 : Mendocino
Sub-basin area
78,7km²
Upstream area
78,8km²
Discharge
2,21m³/s
Mean elev.
117m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 74.5 km²94.6% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Jug Handle State
IUCN VNatural Reserve
3.14 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.40 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.34 km² overlap
California Coastal
IUCN VNational Monument
0.11 km² overlap
Conservation
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.07 km² overlap
Hare Creek
IUCN VBeach
0.02 km² overlap
Caspar Headlands State
IUCN VNatural Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 657 distinct species · 22 797 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Caspar Creek : 35 espèces dont 5 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
1 106mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
884mm/an
PET
967mm
AET
601mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
289cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)