HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080673360
Bassin de Piru Creek
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 : Los Angeles, Ventura
Sub-basin area
426,1km²
Upstream area
1 114,4km²
Discharge
7,01m³/s
Mean elev.
836m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gorman Creek185 km²
- Bassin de Piru Creek168 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.4 km²50.8% of basin
- 209.5 km²49.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sespe
IUCN IbWilderness
158.71 km² overlap
Piru Creek, California
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
8.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 355 distinct species · 56 231 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 Piru Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
437mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 287mm
AET
371mm
Mean slope
16,7°
Water table
708cm
Forest
97%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)