HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080586340
Bassin de Apishapa 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 2 administrative regions : Otero, Pueblo
Sub-basin area
104,4km²
Upstream area
2 793,9km²
Discharge
1,53m³/s
Mean elev.
1 359m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Apishapa River329 km²
- Bassin de Apishapa River151 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Otero95.3 km²91.3% of basin
- 9.1 km²8.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Huerfano Uplands
IUCN VEasement
44.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 108 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Apishapa River : 26 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
11,6°C
Annual rain
279mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 373mm
AET
238mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
266cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)