HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080640910
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 4 administrative regions : Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe
Sub-basin area
288,4km²
Upstream area
36 269,7km²
Discharge
60,19m³/s
Mean elev.
2 154m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tesuque514 km²
- Bassin de Rio Grande265 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 133.8 km²46.4% of basin
- 110.7 km²38.4% of basin
- 32.1 km²11.1% of basin
- 11.9 km²4.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bandelier
IUCN VNational Monument
2.57 km² overlap
Valles Caldera
IUCN VNational Preserve
0.59 km² overlap
US 4
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.14 km² overlap
Tribal Nation 3
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 647 distinct species · 453 294 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 Grande : 20 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
411mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 178mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
752cm
Forest
64%
Crops
0%
Urban
6%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)