HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080643510
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 : San Luis Obispo
Sub-basin area
1 562,4km²
Upstream area
1 562,4km²
Discharge
8,72m³/s
Mean elev.
436m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1562.5 km²100.0% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Machesna Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
39.69 km² overlap
Garcia
IUCN IbWilderness
25.08 km² overlap
Regional Park
22.76 km² overlap
Santa Lucia
IUCN IbWilderness
14.78 km² overlap
American Canyon
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
3.93 km² overlap
Black Butte
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
3.09 km² overlap
Conservation
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.34 km² overlap
Black Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.65 km² overlap
Machesna Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.50 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Machesna
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.33 km² overlap
Santa Lucia
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 274 distinct species · 388 846 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 27 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
514mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 424mm
AET
434mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
431cm
Forest
49%
Crops
13%
Urban
4%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)