HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080604740
Bassin de Purgatoire 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 2 administrative regions : Las Animas, Union
Sub-basin area
287,3km²
Upstream area
4 199,3km²
Discharge
1,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 723m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Trinchera Creek403 km²
- Bassin de Purgatoire River184 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 284.2 km²98.9% of basin
- Union3.2 km²1.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
190 distinct species · 574 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Purgatoire River : 25 espèces reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
367mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 291mm
AET
313mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
635cm
Forest
4%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)