HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080589140
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 : Crowley, Otero
Sub-basin area
150,6km²
Upstream area
30 817,4km²
Discharge
10,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Timpas Creek1286 km²
- Bassin de Arkansas River188 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Otero149.9 km²99.5% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Watershed Protection
1.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
352 distinct species · 29 981 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 19.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
11,7°C
Annual rain
295mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 359mm
AET
252mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
232cm
Forest
10%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)