HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080670620
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 : Socorro, Torrance, Valencia
Sub-basin area
496,5km²
Upstream area
47 640,7km²
Discharge
68,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 637m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grande2351 km²
- Bassin de Hells Canyon Wash987 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 468.3 km²94.3% of basin
- 24.8 km²5.0% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Manzano Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
50.93 km² overlap
State Habitat Area
1.79 km² overlap
Belen
IUCN VWaterfowl Management Area
0.99 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 318 distinct species · 115 616 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 : 14 espèces reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.7%, 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°
12,2°C
Annual rain
260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 441mm
AET
221mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
593cm
Forest
15%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)