HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080611800
Bassin de Amargo 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 : Archuleta, Conejos, Rio Arriba
Sub-basin area
1 276,5km²
Upstream area
1 276,6km²
Discharge
10,55m³/s
Mean elev.
2 490m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 685.6 km²53.7% of basin
- 570.3 km²44.7% of basin
- 21.1 km²1.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
South San Juan
IUCN IbWilderness
50.46 km² overlap
William A. Humphries
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
15.21 km² overlap
Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust Easement #
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
9.15 km² overlap
Edward Sargent
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 002 distinct species · 8 344 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Amargo Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.3%, 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°
4,4°C
Annual rain
562mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
164mm/an
PET
1 052mm
AET
461mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
561cm
Forest
75%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)