HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080618130
Bassin de la Plata 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
2 634,1km²
Upstream area
21 311,2km²
Discharge
60,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 953m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gallegos Wash1516 km²
- Bassin de Animas River696 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1548.2 km²58.8% of basin
- 1076.8 km²40.9% of basin
- 10.1 km²0.4% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Jackson Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.10 km² overlap
Roth/Michael
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
2.92 km² overlap
Animas Conservancy
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.71 km² overlap
Mason
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.68 km² overlap
Hodgin
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.41 km² overlap
Tyler/Iverson Restated
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.07 km² overlap
Aspaas Ranch
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.59 km² overlap
San Juan Land And Cattle
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.48 km² overlap
Morine
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.47 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Stillwell
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.32 km² overlap
Pope Restated
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.21 km² overlap
Hermosa Creek
IUCN IbWilderness
0.20 km² overlap
Calvert/Kramer
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.18 km² overlap
Ellis
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.15 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 692 distinct species · 40 948 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 la Plata River : 27 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
343mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
29mm/an
PET
1 231mm
AET
289mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
738cm
Forest
27%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)