HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080666190
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 : Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia
Sub-basin area
2 350,8km²
Upstream area
46 157,5km²
Discharge
67,89m³/s
Mean elev.
1 738m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jemez River2734 km²
- Bassin de Sile Main Canal1215 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1484.2 km²63.1% of basin
- 647.0 km²27.5% of basin
- 219.4 km²9.3% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Sandia Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
125.07 km² overlap
Petroglyph
IUCN VNational Monument
37.21 km² overlap
Watershed
9.76 km² overlap
Watershed
6.86 km² overlap
Bernalillo Watershed
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
4.17 km² overlap
Recreation
2.32 km² overlap
Valle De Oro
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
2.31 km² overlap
Manzano/Four Hills
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.49 km² overlap
Sabino Canyon
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.46 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Manazano Foot Hills
IUCN VOpen Space
0.41 km² overlap
Sedillo Ridge
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.14 km² overlap
North Domingo Baca
IUCN VGame Field
0.14 km² overlap
Altamont Little League
IUCN VGame Field
0.11 km² overlap
Pajarito
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.08 km² overlap
Sanchez Farm
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.05 km² overlap
Gutierrez-Hubbell House
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.04 km² overlap
Durand
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.04 km² overlap
Game Field
0.04 km² overlap
Alameda Soccer
IUCN VFields
0.03 km² overlap
Ben Greiner Soccer
IUCN VField
0.02 km² overlap
School
0.01 km² overlap
Old Armijo Soccer
IUCN VField
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 361 distinct species · 3 082 587 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.2%, 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
278mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 368mm
AET
237mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
889cm
Forest
18%
Crops
4%
Urban
25%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)