HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080604900
Bassin de San Joaquin 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 : Merced
Sub-basin area
31,1km²
Upstream area
24 455,5km²
Discharge
137,03m³/s
Mean elev.
26m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bear Creek2208 km²
- Bassin de Chowchilla River1574 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.1 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Grasslands Wildlife Management Area 17
IUCN Not AssignedWildlife Management Area
3.43 km² overlap
Grasslands
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.25 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
2.24 km² overlap
San Luis
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
1.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
422 distinct species · 12 882 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 San Joaquin River : 16 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 25.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
16,5°C
Annual rain
264mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
79mm/an
PET
1 471mm
AET
223mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
9cm
Forest
43%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)