HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080601850
Bassin de Rock 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, Conejos, Rio Grande
Sub-basin area
883,3km²
Upstream area
883,5km²
Discharge
1,36m³/s
Mean elev.
2 507m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 441.7 km²50.0% of basin
- 227.9 km²25.8% of basin
- 214.1 km²24.2% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Monte Vista
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
59.62 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
2.80 km² overlap
Alamosa
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.78 km² overlap
Us-Co-131-2
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.60 km² overlap
Us-Co-79-1
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.35 km² overlap
Us-Co-94-1
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.10 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.51 km² overlap
Us-Co-131-1
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.31 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.03 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Us-Co-94-4
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.94 km² overlap
Us-Co-109-1
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
877 distinct species · 97 538 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Rock Creek : 14 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 24.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
310mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 048mm
AET
261mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
386cm
Forest
27%
Crops
24%
Urban
1%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)