HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080602870
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 1 administrative regions : La Plata
Sub-basin area
296,6km²
Upstream area
1 179,2km²
Discharge
9,91m³/s
Mean elev.
2 802m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Animas River662 km²
- Bassin de Lime Creek221 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 296.7 km²100.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Weminuche
IUCN IbWilderness
5.49 km² overlap
Animas Conservancy
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.29 km² overlap
Elkhorn E
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
Elkhorn D
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.14 km² overlap
Elkhorn C
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.13 km² overlap
The Cove
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Brown (William)
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 140 distinct species · 27 839 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 : 31 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
2,9°C
Annual rain
687mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
117mm/an
PET
951mm
AET
546mm
Mean slope
14,2°
Water table
544cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)