HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080640440
Bassin de Salinas 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 : Monterey
Sub-basin area
86,3km²
Upstream area
5 472,4km²
Discharge
27,52m³/s
Mean elev.
301m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nacimiento River961 km²
- Bassin de Big Sandy Creek426 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 86.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Big Sandy
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
136 distinct species · 608 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Salinas River : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
14,8°C
Annual rain
299mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
1 509mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
447cm
Forest
1%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)