Wilderness · usa
Ventana
- Area
- 956 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1969
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1969
- Managing authority
- Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 575 distinct species · 161 355 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Ventana : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.0%, 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).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 32 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
137,0km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 582km²
Discharge in basins
10,6m³/s
Mean precip.
607mm/an
Mean T°
12,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,49
Max snow
4%
Mean runoff
280mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
591m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Arroyo Secosub-area772,6 km²overlap400.38 km²42%
- Bassin de Carmel Riversub-area643,4 km²overlap139.32 km²15%
- Bassin de Pheneger Creeksub-area155,4 km²overlap120.59 km²13%
- Bassin de San Antonio Riversub-area881,2 km²overlap104.54 km²11%
- Bassin de Arroyo De La Lagunasub-area1 581,9 km²overlap91.75 km²10%
- Bassin de Little Sur Riversub-area289,7 km²overlap64.26 km²7%
- Bassin de Nacimiento Riversub-area960,9 km²overlap34.99 km²4%
Rivers / streams (32, ord ≥ 4)
- Carmel Riverord 3len here16.81 km26%total64 km
- Arroyo Secoord 4len here16.77 km26%total63 km
- Tassajara Creekord 2len here11.79 km93%total13 km
- San Antonio Riverord 3len here10.36 km9%total112 km
- Santa Lucia Creekord 1len here9.96 km88%total11 km
- Big Sur Riverord 2len here9.93 km100%total10 km
- Lost Valley Creekord 2len here6.18 km100%total6 km
- North Fork Big Sur Riverord 1len here5.63 km100%total6 km
- Zigzag Creekord 1len here4.57 km100%total5 km
- Pine Creekord 1len here4.29 km83%total5 km
- Lion Creekord 2len here3.88 km100%total4 km
- Horse Creekord 1len here3.68 km53%total7 km
20 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- South Fork Devil's Creekord 1len here3.58 km60%total6 km
- Higgins Creekord 1len here3.36 km100%total3 km
- Piney Creekord 4len here3.05 km22%total14 km
- Nacimiento Riverord 3len here2.93 km3%total93 km
- Little Sur Riverord 2len here2.72 km19%total14 km
- Church Creekord 1len here2.28 km100%total2 km
- Vaqueros Creekord 1len here2.09 km18%total12 km
- Ventana Creekord 1len here1.95 km100%total2 km
- North Fork San Antonio Riverord 1len here1.87 km35%total5 km
- Pheneger Creekord 2len here1.84 km14%total13 km
- Devil's Creekord 2len here1.54 km32%total5 km
- Comings Creekord 1len here1.45 km100%total1 km
- Hare Creekord 1len here0.86 km63%total1 km
- Danish Creekord 1len here0.73 km22%total3 km
- Logwood Creekord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Skinner Creekord 1len here0.67 km76%total1 km
- Pinal Creekord 1len here0.58 km21%total3 km
- Willow Creekord 1len here0.56 km100%total1 km
- Reliz Creekord 1len here0.27 km1%total19 km
- South Fork Little Sur Riverord 1len here0.13 km2%total8 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
- 36.16386, -121.39470
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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.