HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080680800
Bassin de Colorado 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 3 administrative regions : La Paz, Riverside, San Bernardino
Sub-basin area
1 848,5km²
Upstream area
453 121,3km²
Discharge
517,73m³/s
Mean elev.
358m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Colorado River2630 km²
- Bassin de Bill Williams River188 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1217.3 km²65.9% of basin
- 521.5 km²28.2% of basin
- 109.3 km²5.9% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Turtle Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
189.39 km² overlap
Whipple Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
139.09 km² overlap
Gibraltar Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
76.31 km² overlap
Cactus Plain
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
49.30 km² overlap
Riverside Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
14.73 km² overlap
East Cactus Plain
IUCN IbWilderness Area
8.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 316 distinct species · 77 861 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Colorado River : 29 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
139mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
116mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
944cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)