HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080673540
Bassin de Santa Clara 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 : Ventura
Sub-basin area
158km²
Upstream area
3 025km²
Discharge
18,6m³/s
Mean elev.
513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Santa Clara River1753 km²
- Bassin de Piru Creek426 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 158.0 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sespe
IUCN IbWilderness
25.35 km² overlap
Hopper Mountain
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
9.46 km² overlap
Middle Santa Clara River
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
1.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 055 distinct species · 34 835 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 Santa Clara River : 30 espèces reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
15,5°C
Annual rain
463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 329mm
AET
393mm
Mean slope
13,2°
Water table
518cm
Forest
85%
Crops
15%
Urban
4%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)