HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080674910
Bassin de Rio Salado
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 1 administrative regions : Socorro
Sub-basin area
557,7km²
Upstream area
2 641,3km²
Discharge
0,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 900m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Salado506 km²
- Bassin de Rio Salado429 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 557.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Ladrones
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
117.51 km² overlap
Sevilleta
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
440 distinct species · 2 965 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Salado : 25 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
11,2°C
Annual rain
280mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 387mm
AET
238mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
1 007cm
Forest
20%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)