Marine Protected Area · usa
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- Area
- 15 795 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Marine Protected Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ; State Fish and Wildlife ; Regional Agency Land ; Non-Governmental Organization ; State Park and Recreation ; Bureau of Land Management
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
9 217 distinct species · 8 177 808 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.1%, 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).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 24 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
2,2km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
3 356km²
Discharge in basins
0,2m³/s
Mean precip.
575mm/an
Mean T°
13,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,48
Max snow
4%
Mean runoff
273mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
277m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Arroyo De La Lagunasub-area1 581,9 km²overlap39.53 km²0%
- Bassin de San Lorenzo Riversub-area2 546,9 km²overlap24.52 km²0%
- Bassin de Little Sur Riversub-area289,7 km²overlap12.33 km²0%
- Basin #13150sub-area170,1 km²overlap12.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Sonoma Creeksub-area2 478,4 km²overlap3.61 km²0%
- Bassin de Gabilan Creeksub-area457,5 km²overlap3.60 km²0%
- Bassin de Carmel Riversub-area643,4 km²overlap0.13 km²0%
- Bassin de Pheneger Creeksub-area155,4 km²overlap0.06 km²0%
- Bassin de Pajaro Riversub-area83 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
Rivers / streams (24, ord ≥ 4)
- Carneros Creekord 2len here0.34 km2%total17 km
- San Jose Creekord 1len here0.28 km3%total9 km
- Hare Creekord 1len here0.25 km18%total1 km
- San Carpoforo Creekord 2len here0.22 km2%total10 km
- Willow Creekord 2len here0.20 km3%total7 km
- Little Pico Creekord 1len here0.19 km7%total3 km
- Malpaso Creekord 1len here0.13 km24%total1 km
- San Simeon Creekord 2len here0.13 km1%total9 km
- Whitehouse Creekord 1len here0.11 km6%total2 km
- Carmel Riverord 3len here0.10 km0%total64 km
- Devil's Creekord 2len here0.09 km2%total5 km
- Oak Knoll Creekord 1len here0.09 km6%total1 km
12 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Little Sur Riverord 2len here0.06 km0%total14 km
- Wilder Creekord 1len here0.04 km6%total1 km
- Old Salinas Riverord 1len here0.01 km0%total7 km
- Partington Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal1 km
- Santa Rosa Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal18 km
- Pico Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal2 km
- Pilarcitos Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal15 km
- Aptos Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal10 km
- Laguna Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
- Garrapata Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal7 km
- Pheneger Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal13 km
- Pajaro Riverord 5len here≈ tangenttotal40 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 36.71743, -122.30747
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.