HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080621170
Bassin de Red 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 2 administrative regions : Colfax, Taos
Sub-basin area
485,3km²
Upstream area
485,4km²
Discharge
0,61m³/s
Mean elev.
2 956m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 484.6 km²99.8% of basin
- Colfax0.9 km²0.2% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Columbine-Hondo
IUCN IbWilderness
101.99 km² overlap
Latir Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
43.54 km² overlap
Wheeler Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
26.17 km² overlap
Río Grande Del Norte
IUCN VNational Monument
22.51 km² overlap
Rio Grande, New Mexico
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
1.51 km² overlap
Wilson Lama 1
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 625 distinct species · 23 643 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Red River : 26 espèces reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
2,6°C
Annual rain
579mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
926mm
AET
484mm
Mean slope
16,1°
Water table
814cm
Forest
97%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)