HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080662290
Bassin de Puerco 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 2 administrative regions : Apache, Navajo
Sub-basin area
1 860,3km²
Upstream area
7 821,7km²
Discharge
2,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 718m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Puerco River703 km²
- Bassin de Parker Draw339 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1363.9 km²73.3% of basin
- 496.3 km²26.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Petrified Forest
IUCN IINational Park
505.53 km² overlap
Wilderness Area
161.75 km² overlap
State Trust Land
IUCN VIState Trust Lands
36.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 100 distinct species · 26 758 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Puerco River : 37 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
246mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 394mm
AET
209mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
666cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)