HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080595330
Bassin de Purgatoire 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 : Las Animas, Otero
Sub-basin area
661,4km²
Upstream area
7 641km²
Discharge
2,53m³/s
Mean elev.
1 427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chacuaco Creek1100 km²
- Bassin de Purgatoire River881 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Otero358.3 km²54.1% of basin
- 303.5 km²45.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 117 distinct species · 43 552 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Purgatoire River : 25 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.7%, 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°
11,6°C
Annual rain
323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 355mm
AET
275mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
757cm
Forest
14%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)