HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080592780
Bassin de Saquache 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 2 administrative regions : Mineral, Saguache
Sub-basin area
1 933,6km²
Upstream area
1 933,7km²
Discharge
3,84m³/s
Mean elev.
2 886m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1934.3 km²100.0% of basin
- Mineral0.5 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 078 distinct species · 11 340 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Saquache Creek : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 137 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
2,1°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
90mm/an
PET
901mm
AET
383mm
Mean slope
8,8°
Water table
452cm
Forest
77%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)