HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080660070
Bassin de Cottonwood Wash
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 1 administrative regions : Navajo
Sub-basin area
1 088,4km²
Upstream area
4 331,8km²
Discharge
2,13m³/s
Mean elev.
1 663m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080652620350 km²
- Bassin de Pueblo Colorado Wash277 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1088.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
155 distinct species · 207 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Cottonwood Wash : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
232mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 398mm
AET
198mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
683cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)