HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080583120
Bassin de Arkansas River
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 1 administrative regions : Pueblo
Sub-basin area
85,2km²
Upstream area
16 182,9km²
Discharge
5,49m³/s
Mean elev.
1 426m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Greenhorn Creek1238 km²
- Bassin de Salt Creek204 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 85.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
291 distinct species · 1 958 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Arkansas River : 29 espèces reliées par 133 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.2%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
11,5°C
Annual rain
298mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 339mm
AET
255mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
289cm
Forest
11%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)