HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080661640
Bassin de Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River
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 : Armstrong, Potter, Randall
Sub-basin area
692,1km²
Upstream area
7 753,6km²
Discharge
0,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 082m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Palo Duro Creek2476 km²
- Bassin de Tierra Blanca Creek1000 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 634.5 km²91.7% of basin
- Potter31.6 km²4.6% of basin
- Armstrong25.9 km²3.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 916 distinct species · 156 965 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 Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River : 27 espèces reliées par 101 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.2%, 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 382mm
AET
416mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
365cm
Forest
3%
Crops
34%
Urban
13%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)