HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080553470
Bassin de Sand Creek
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Kit Carson, Lincoln
Sub-basin area
632,8km²
Upstream area
1 545km²
Discharge
0,53m³/s
Mean elev.
1 428m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Republican River549 km²
- Bassin de Buffalo Creek363 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 621.1 km²98.1% of basin
- Lincoln12.3 km²1.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
402 distinct species · 5 501 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Bassin de Sand Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 124 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 19.7%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
9,5°C
Annual rain
401mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 217mm
AET
344mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
561cm
Forest
1%
Crops
46%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)