HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080660760
Bassin de Santa Maria 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 : San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara
Sub-basin area
238,9km²
Upstream area
4 415,6km²
Discharge
18,29m³/s
Mean elev.
150m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sisquoc River1212 km²
- Bassin de Cuyama River74 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 174.9 km²73.2% of basin
- 64.0 km²26.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 339 distinct species · 64 173 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Santa Maria River : 25 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, 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°
14,4°C
Annual rain
411mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
1 229mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
295cm
Forest
15%
Crops
18%
Urban
10%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)