HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080587660
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 2 administrative regions : Bent, Kiowa
Sub-basin area
466,9km²
Upstream area
46 327,4km²
Discharge
15,12m³/s
Mean elev.
1 251m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Adobe Creek1710 km²
- Bassin de Purgatoire River628 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 414.2 km²88.7% of basin
- Kiowa53.0 km²11.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Karney Ranch SWA - RFP
IUCN VConservation Easement
56.11 km² overlap
Indian Lakes
IUCN VEasement
55.70 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.32 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
728 distinct species · 69 076 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 : 15 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 23.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
11,2°C
Annual rain
330mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
3mm/an
PET
1 340mm
AET
281mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
459cm
Forest
3%
Crops
36%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)