Wilderness · usa
Sespe
- Area
- 888 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 912 distinct species · 36 945 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 Sespe : 25 espèces reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 0 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
126,1km
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 223km²
Discharge in basins
11,2m³/s
Mean precip.
526mm/an
Mean T°
12,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,54
Max snow
6%
Mean runoff
149mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 112m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Sespe Creeksub-area675,5 km²overlap433.30 km²49%
- Bassin de Piru Creeksub-area426,1 km²overlap158.71 km²18%
- Bassin de Cuyama Riversub-area2 365,1 km²overlap116.76 km²13%
- Bassin de Piru Creeksub-area163,8 km²overlap68.69 km²8%
- Bassin de Piru Creeksub-area168,2 km²overlap45.77 km²5%
- Bassin de Santa Clara Riversub-area523 km²overlap35.30 km²4%
- Bassin de Santa Clara Riversub-area158 km²overlap25.35 km²3%
- Bassin de Seymour Creeksub-area171,1 km²overlap4.60 km²1%
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Sespe Creekord 3len here42.79 km64%total67 km
- Agua Blanca Creekord 4len here16.55 km76%total22 km
- Piru Creekord 4len here15.88 km17%total94 km
- Alamo Creekord 2len here10.27 km18%total57 km
- Alder Creekord 1len here6.44 km100%total6 km
- Piedra Blanca Creekord 1len here5.19 km96%total5 km
- Tar Creekord 2len here5.03 km88%total6 km
- Buck Creekord 1len here4.41 km99%total4 km
- Fish Creekord 1len here3.90 km69%total6 km
- Santa Paula Creekord 2len here3.80 km19%total20 km
- Coldwater Forkord 1len here3.16 km100%total3 km
- Redrock Creekord 1len here2.86 km100%total3 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Beartrap Creekord 2len here2.61 km39%total7 km
- Cedar Creekord 1len here1.35 km58%total2 km
- Potrero John Creekord 1len here1.02 km75%total1 km
- Alamo Creekord 1len here0.36 km17%total2 km
- Mutau Creekord 2len here0.36 km4%total8 km
- Lion Canyon Creekord 1len here0.12 km3%total4 km
- Reyes Creekord 1len here0.02 km1%total2 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
- 34.58425, -118.98896
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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.