HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080625320
Bassin de Rio Hondo
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 1 administrative regions : Taos
Sub-basin area
347,2km²
Upstream area
22 815,8km²
Discharge
45,18m³/s
Mean elev.
2 603m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grande1261 km²
- Bassin de Red River485 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 347.3 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Columbine-Hondo
IUCN IbWilderness
78.17 km² overlap
Wheeler Peak
IUCN IbWilderness
41.61 km² overlap
Río Grande Del Norte
IUCN VNational Monument
37.76 km² overlap
Rio Grande, New Mexico
IUCN VWild and Scenic River
3.51 km² overlap
Martinez Family Farmland
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Wilson Lama 1
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 612 distinct species · 32 594 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Hondo : 23 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.4%, 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°
4,9°C
Annual rain
463mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
1 052mm
AET
388mm
Mean slope
12,0°
Water table
770cm
Forest
83%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)