HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080587760
Bassin de Huerfano 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 : Huerfano, Pueblo
Sub-basin area
187,5km²
Upstream area
187,5km²
Discharge
0,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 670m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 137.3 km²73.2% of basin
- 50.3 km²26.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Huerfano Uplands
IUCN VConservation Easement
17.72 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
82 distinct species · 98 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Huerfano River : 32 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 290mm
AET
303mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
995cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)