HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080646430
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 : Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe
Sub-basin area
714,2km²
Upstream area
37 172,3km²
Discharge
61,1m³/s
Mean elev.
2 080m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grande288 km²
- Bassin de Cañada Ancha188 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 411.6 km²57.6% of basin
- 162.1 km²22.7% of basin
- 140.6 km²19.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Bandelier
IUCN VNational Monument
132.89 km² overlap
Bandelier
IUCN IbWilderness Area
99.86 km² overlap
Dome
IUCN IbWilderness
20.98 km² overlap
Valles Caldera
IUCN VNational Preserve
2.52 km² overlap
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks
IUCN VNational Monument
1.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 365 distinct species · 605 256 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
398mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
53mm/an
PET
1 211mm
AET
339mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
813cm
Forest
66%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)