HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080621010
Bassin de Rio Grande
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 : Conejos, Rio Arriba, Taos
Sub-basin area
1 260,9km²
Upstream area
21 983,4km²
Discharge
43,78m³/s
Mean elev.
2 448m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Costilla Creek995 km²
- Bassin de Rio Grande548 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1227.3 km²97.3% of basin
- 32.4 km²2.6% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Río Grande Del Norte
IUCN VNational Monument
848.55 km² overlap
Urraca
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
40.05 km² overlap
Latir Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
38.40 km² overlap
Cerro Del Yuta
IUCN IbWilderness Area
37.37 km² overlap
Río Grande Del Norte
IUCN VNational Monument
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
965 distinct species · 39 146 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 Rio Grande : 24 espèces reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
5,5°C
Annual rain
338mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 101mm
AET
291mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
657cm
Forest
52%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)