HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080630640
Bassin de Palo Duro Creek
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 : Hansford, Sherman
Sub-basin area
494,3km²
Upstream area
3 002,1km²
Discharge
0,38m³/s
Mean elev.
999m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Palo Duro Creek1402 km²
- Bassin de North Palo Duro Creek1106 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 353.0 km²71.4% of basin
- Sherman141.4 km²28.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
147 distinct species · 422 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 Palo Duro Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 116 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
13,7°C
Annual rain
466mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 387mm
AET
395mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
263cm
Forest
0%
Crops
55%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)