HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080614730
Bassin de Pajaro 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 4 administrative regions : Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz
Sub-basin area
104,7km²
Upstream area
3 117,5km²
Discharge
13,32m³/s
Mean elev.
156m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Llagas Creek1321 km²
- Bassin de San Benito River234 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Santa Cruz44.6 km²42.6% of basin
- 23.2 km²22.1% of basin
- 22.8 km²21.8% of basin
- 14.2 km²13.5% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Star Creek Ranch
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
4.79 km² overlap
Circle P Ranch
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.99 km² overlap
Cooley (Crown)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.77 km² overlap
Borina (Kalich)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.46 km² overlap
Borina (Kane)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.27 km² overlap
Borina (Butier)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.25 km² overlap
Borina (Murphy)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.22 km² overlap
Borina (Hoyt)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.21 km² overlap
Cooley (Connell)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Cooley (Garooley)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 255 distinct species · 89 254 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Pajaro River : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
520mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
186mm/an
PET
1 252mm
AET
442mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
429cm
Forest
51%
Crops
20%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)