HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080598700
Bassin de Animas 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 5 administrative regions : Hinsdale, La Plata, Ouray, San Juan, San Miguel
Sub-basin area
662,2km²
Upstream area
662,2km²
Discharge
6,07m³/s
Mean elev.
3 491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San Juan574.0 km²86.6% of basin
- 82.3 km²12.4% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.4% of basin
- San Miguel2.1 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.2% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Weminuche
IUCN IbWilderness
242.86 km² overlap
Whitehead Gulch
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
7.51 km² overlap
Weminuche Contiguous
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
5.68 km² overlap
Handies Peak
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
5.54 km² overlap
Molas Pass Wsa
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
2.02 km² overlap
Animas Conservancy
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.07 km² overlap
Fields
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 448 distinct species · 25 655 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 56 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 Animas River : 36 espèces reliées par 138 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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°
-1,1°C
Annual rain
873mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
726mm
AET
561mm
Mean slope
23,8°
Water table
894cm
Forest
88%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)