HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080588550
Bassin de Two Butte 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 4 administrative regions : Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Prowers
Sub-basin area
2 091,2km²
Upstream area
2 091,2km²
Discharge
0,15m³/s
Mean elev.
1 381m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 906.1 km²43.3% of basin
- 606.6 km²29.0% of basin
- 522.3 km²25.0% of basin
- 57.2 km²2.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Lower Purgatoire
IUCN VEasement
13.92 km² overlap
Land Trust Land
IUCN VLocal Land Trust Lands
5.23 km² overlap
Environmental System
5.23 km² overlap
Fresh Tracks North Border
IUCN Not AssignedTrack
2.62 km² overlap
Marianne Rees Nature Preserve / Two Marys
IUCN Not AssignedNature Preserve
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
922 distinct species · 70 563 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Two Butte Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
11,3°C
Annual rain
385mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 309mm
AET
329mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
720cm
Forest
0%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)