HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080612800
Bassin de Mancos 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 3 administrative regions : La Plata, Montezuma, San Juan
Sub-basin area
2 071,2km²
Upstream area
2 071,2km²
Discharge
1,69m³/s
Mean elev.
2 035m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1923.0 km²92.8% of basin
- 143.6 km²6.9% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.3% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Mesa Verde
IUCN IINational Park
186.04 km² overlap
Menefee Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
29.67 km² overlap
Weber Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
25.36 km² overlap
Mesa Verde
IUCN IbWilderness Area
22.11 km² overlap
Mason
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.83 km² overlap
Yucca House
IUCN IIINational Monument
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 370 distinct species · 89 573 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 Mancos River : 24 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
390mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
44mm/an
PET
1 193mm
AET
329mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
776cm
Forest
48%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)