HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080602110

Bassin de Franklin Eddy Canal

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, Costilla, Huerfano

2% lakePfafstetter: 75219801

Sub-basin area

794,1km²

Upstream area

7 516,3km²

Discharge

10,06m³/s

Mean elev.

2 481m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Franklin Eddy Canal9 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Little Spring Creek308 km²
Bassin de Franklin Eddy Canal1 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Alamosa
Colorado · United States
591.7 km²
74.5% of basin
Costilla
Colorado · United States
202.6 km²
25.5% of basin
Huerfano
Colorado · United States
0.2 km²
0.0% of basin

9 intersecting protected areas

Great Sand Dunes/San Luis Lakes
IUCN V
Lake
97.45 km² overlap
Medano / Zapata Ranch
IUCN V
Conservation Easement
95.00 km² overlap
Sangre de Cristo
IUCN Ib
Wilderness Area
59.12 km² overlap
Sangre De Cristo
IUCN V
Conservation Area
41.75 km² overlap
North Zapata
IUCN Ia
Research Natural Area
14.87 km² overlap
Great Sand Dunes
IUCN V
National Preserve
7.58 km² overlap
Alamosa
IUCN IV
National Wildlife Refuge
5.07 km² overlap
Eastern San Luis Valley
IUCN V
Easement
4.90 km² overlap
Papa Keal
IUCN Ib
Wilderness Study Area
1.55 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 182 distinct species · 31 823 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 36 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Franklin Eddy Canal : 26 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.111

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

4,9°C

Annual rain

290mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,70

Runoff

12mm/an

PET

1 068mm

AET

246mm

Mean slope

4,0°

Water table

336cm

Forest

21%

Crops

Urban

Protected

22%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)