HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080611560
Bassin de San Juan 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 4 administrative regions : Archuleta, Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande
Sub-basin area
1 631,2km²
Upstream area
1 631,2km²
Discharge
21,33m³/s
Mean elev.
2 722m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1192.0 km²73.0% of basin
- Mineral413.1 km²25.3% of basin
- 23.9 km²1.5% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
South San Juan
IUCN IbWilderness
253.04 km² overlap
Weminuche
IUCN IbWilderness
181.58 km² overlap
Reservoir Hill
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.32 km² overlap
Pagosa Springs
IUCN VWetland
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 027 distinct species · 100 227 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de San Juan River : 27 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
3,0°C
Annual rain
648mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
968mm
AET
496mm
Mean slope
13,4°
Water table
579cm
Forest
93%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)