HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080695340
Bassin de San Felipe 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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Imperial, Riverside, San Diego, Tecate
Sub-basin area
5 050,2km²
Upstream area
5 050,2km²
Discharge
5,66m³/s
Mean elev.
562m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3053.9 km²60.5% of basin
- 1406.1 km²27.9% of basin
- 366.5 km²7.3% of basin
- 221.2 km²4.4% of basin
23 intersecting protected areas
Sawtooth Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
137.05 km² overlap
National Monument
124.02 km² overlap
National Monument
109.79 km² overlap
Santa Rosa
IUCN IbWilderness Area
103.37 km² overlap
Fish Creek Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
90.40 km² overlap
Santa Rosa
IUCN VWildlife Area
78.06 km² overlap
Carrizo Gorge
IUCN IbWilderness Area
59.99 km² overlap
San Felipe Valley
IUCN VWildlife Area
58.29 km² overlap
Coyote Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
46.63 km² overlap
14 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Sonny Bono Salton Sea
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
41.95 km² overlap
San Felipe Hills
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
17.28 km² overlap
Sawtooth Mountains A
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
16.05 km² overlap
Beauty Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
9.00 km² overlap
Volcan Mountain
IUCN VWilderness Preserve
8.18 km² overlap
San Felipe Creek
IUCN VEcological Reserve
7.26 km² overlap
Carrizo Gorge
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
3.65 km² overlap
Santa Rosa
IUCN IbWilderness
3.58 km² overlap
Walker Canyon
IUCN VEcological Reserve
2.12 km² overlap
Sawtooth Mountains C
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.91 km² overlap
Open Space
1.25 km² overlap
Table Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.08 km² overlap
San Ysidro Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.71 km² overlap
Mesquite Bosque
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 858 distinct species · 833 964 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 San Felipe Creek : 30 espèces reliées par 133 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
252mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
212mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
512cm
Forest
10%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)