HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080615010
Bassin de San Benito 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 2 administrative regions : Monterey, San Benito
Sub-basin area
233,7km²
Upstream area
1 691,7km²
Discharge
4,79m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tres Pinos Creek558 km²
- Bassin de San Benito River68 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 231.4 km²99.0% of basin
- 2.4 km²1.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Gabilan Range
IUCN VEasement
14.53 km² overlap
Rancho Larios
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
1.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 347 distinct species · 63 719 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 Benito River : 19 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.3%, 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°
14,4°C
Annual rain
427mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
1 313mm
AET
363mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
362cm
Forest
57%
Crops
14%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)