HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080634440
Bassin de El Rito
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 : Rio Arriba, Sandoval
Sub-basin area
1 872,6km²
Upstream area
6 601,6km²
Discharge
8,99m³/s
Mean elev.
2 331m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Puerco537 km²
- Bassin de Rio Chama264 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1871.1 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserve
0.79 km² overlap
Chama River Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness
0.11 km² overlap
Valles Caldera
IUCN VNational Preserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 652 distinct species · 42 611 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 El Rito : 26 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
432mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 118mm
AET
368mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
696cm
Forest
65%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)