Recommended Wilderness · usa
Big Bend Proposed or Recom
- Area
- 2 334 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 2003
Overview
- Designation
- Recommended Wilderness
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 2003
- Managing authority
- National Park Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 901 distinct species · 349 925 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 Big Bend Proposed or Recom : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology16 basins · 0 lakes · 20 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
410,0km
Basins crossed
16
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
199 443km²
Discharge in basins
350,5m³/s
Mean precip.
306mm/an
Mean T°
19,7°C
Moisture idx
-0,81
Mean runoff
22mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
968m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Tornillo Creeksub-area905,5 km²overlap623.98 km²27%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area2 380,8 km²overlap547.64 km²23%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area475 km²overlap215.34 km²9%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area706,6 km²overlap195.83 km²8%
- Bassin de Cottonwood Creeksub-area282,5 km²overlap174.12 km²7%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area239,7 km²overlap164.27 km²7%
- Bassin de Nine Point Drawsub-area1 703,8 km²overlap107.43 km²5%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area165,8 km²overlap100.24 km²4%
- Bassin de Well Creeksub-area267,1 km²overlap70.53 km²3%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Maravillas Creeksub-area325,6 km²overlap51.14 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area1 503,9 km²overlap33.40 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area77,8 km²overlap26.94 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area102,3 km²overlap18.45 km²1%
- Bassin de Maravillas Creeksub-area1 073,9 km²overlap4.36 km²0%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area11,7 km²overlap0.13 km²0%
- Bassin de Piedritassub-area740,5 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
Rivers / streams (20, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Bravo / Rio Grandeord 7len here110.50 km3%total3249 km
- Tornillo Creekord 4len here67.13 km64%total105 km
- Alamo Creekord 7len here55.12 km71%total78 km
- Blue Creekord 1len here22.14 km67%total33 km
- Smoky Creekord 2len here20.70 km90%total23 km
- Javalina Creekord 3len here19.34 km84%total23 km
- Oak Creekord 2len here18.43 km88%total21 km
- Heath Creekord 2len here16.44 km81%total20 km
- Cottonwood Creekord 3len here16.18 km7%total232 km
- Fresno Creekord 2len here14.35 km23%total61 km
- Dugout Draword 1len here9.09 km98%total9 km
- Glenn Draword 1len here9.08 km43%total21 km
8 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Nine Point Draword 4len here8.99 km8%total116 km
- Terlingua Creekord 4len here7.18 km5%total158 km
- Well Creekord 4len here5.66 km23%total25 km
- Star Creekord 2len here3.25 km98%total3 km
- Rough Runord 4len here3.12 km29%total11 km
- Dawson Creekord 1len here2.16 km62%total3 km
- Ash Creekord 2len here0.75 km25%total3 km
- Bone Spring Draword 2len here0.40 km2%total19 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
- 29.19521, -103.31191
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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.