HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080674060
Bassin de Rio Puerco
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 : Socorro, Valencia
Sub-basin area
332,7km²
Upstream area
16 670,8km²
Discharge
6,93m³/s
Mean elev.
1 585m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin · #70800749202215 km²
- Bassin de Rio Puerco379 km²
- Bassin de Rio Puerco41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 332.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sevilleta
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
73.17 km² overlap
Sierra Ladrones
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
22.98 km² overlap
La Joya
IUCN VWaterfowl Management Area
0.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
994 distinct species · 13 847 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Puerco : 21 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
12,6°C
Annual rain
235mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 483mm
AET
199mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
776cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)