HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080597460
Bassin de Little Spring 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 3 administrative regions : Alamosa, Huerfano, Saguache
Sub-basin area
308,4km²
Upstream area
308,4km²
Discharge
0,03m³/s
Mean elev.
2 649m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 178.0 km²57.7% of basin
- 130.2 km²42.2% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Great Sand Dunes
IUCN VNational Preserve
256.82 km² overlap
Sangre de Cristo
IUCN IbWilderness Area
97.13 km² overlap
Great Sand Dunes
IUCN IbWilderness Area
93.89 km² overlap
Lake
46.93 km² overlap
North Zapata
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
9.16 km² overlap
Medano / Zapata Ranch
IUCN VConservation Easement
5.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 181 distinct species · 21 782 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Little Spring Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 133 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
359mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 005mm
AET
308mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
681cm
Forest
51%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)