HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080627150
Bassin de Arroyo Seco
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 : Monterey
Sub-basin area
772,6km²
Upstream area
772,7km²
Discharge
8,24m³/s
Mean elev.
675m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 772.8 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Ventana
IUCN IbWilderness
400.38 km² overlap
Bear Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
16.29 km² overlap
Arroyo Seco
IUCN VEasement
11.64 km² overlap
Mueller
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
6.93 km² overlap
Big Sur, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
0.39 km² overlap
Ventana
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 226 distinct species · 32 834 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Arroyo Seco : 41 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
12,4°C
Annual rain
610mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
286mm/an
PET
1 259mm
AET
492mm
Mean slope
16,1°
Water table
563cm
Forest
87%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)