World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · mex
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- Area
- 3 736 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1993
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1993
- Managing authority
- Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources through the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 138 distinct species · 46 088 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino : 25 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.6%, 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).
Hydrology17 basins · 11 lakes · 1 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
13,3km
Lake surface here
59,78km²
Basins crossed
17
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
3 145km²
Discharge in basins
0,2m³/s
Mean precip.
109mm/an
Mean T°
20,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,94
Mean runoff
20mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
149m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #11090sub-area895,5 km²overlap683.94 km²18%
- Basin #11160sub-area1 831 km²overlap450.49 km²12%
- Basin #10770sub-area1 601,5 km²overlap445.79 km²12%
- Basin #11290sub-area2 440,5 km²overlap353.84 km²9%
- Basin #10840sub-area2 419,1 km²overlap251.20 km²7%
- Basin #10750sub-area287 km²overlap201.34 km²5%
- Basin #11140sub-area290,8 km²overlap192.36 km²5%
- Basin #11170sub-area213,1 km²overlap158.98 km²4%
- Basin #10850sub-area794,1 km²overlap81.00 km²2%
8 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #10830sub-area66,6 km²overlap66.48 km²2%
- Basin #10760sub-area991,8 km²overlap63.33 km²2%
- Bassin de Arroyo San Ignaciosub-area888,9 km²overlap52.92 km²1%
- Basin #89200sub-area280,7 km²overlap26.03 km²1%
- Bassin de Arroyo San Ignaciosub-area734,4 km²overlap20.61 km²1%
- Bassin de Arroyo San Ignaciosub-area18,5 km²overlap18.49 km²0%
- Basin #11150sub-area4,2 km²overlap4.15 km²0%
- Bassin de Arroyo San Ignaciosub-area0,8 km²overlap0.76 km²0%
Lakes (11, top by area)
- Lake #9630area61,8 km²avg depth1.7 m
- Lake #9624area14 km²avg depth1.6 m
- Lake #14476area6 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lake #14450area2,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lac 1068952area0,9 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1068632area0,8 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1068521area0,7 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1068753area0,7 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lac 1068636area0,4 km²avg depth2.1 m
Rivers / streams (1, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 27.68424, -114.21236
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.