HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080694080
Bassin de Rio Ruidoso
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 : Lincoln, Otero
Sub-basin area
753,1km²
Upstream area
753,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
2 201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lincoln497.7 km²66.1% of basin
- 255.1 km²33.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Conservation Area
11.53 km² overlap
White Mountain
IUCN IbWilderness
8.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 047 distinct species · 42 607 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Ruidoso : 22 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 205mm
AET
398mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
849cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)