HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080636480
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 : Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos
Sub-basin area
2 058,2km²
Upstream area
26 440,9km²
Discharge
48,65m³/s
Mean elev.
2 468m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pueblo de Taos1085 km²
- Bassin de Rio Grande185 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1121.2 km²54.5% of basin
- 933.9 km²45.4% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Pecos
IUCN IbWilderness
103.37 km² overlap
Río Grande Del Norte
IUCN VNational Monument
67.69 km² overlap
Reserve
0.48 km² overlap
Gasca
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 111 distinct species · 95 589 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 20.9%, 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°
6,2°C
Annual rain
446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
31mm/an
PET
1 101mm
AET
378mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
813cm
Forest
74%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)