HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080694590
Bassin de Pecos 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 2 administrative regions : Chaves, Roosevelt
Sub-basin area
1 577,9km²
Upstream area
27 674,7km²
Discharge
9,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pecos River1780 km²
- Bassin de Salt Creek165 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1478.5 km²93.7% of basin
- Roosevelt98.8 km²6.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bitter Lake
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
50.62 km² overlap
Salt Creek
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 232 distinct species · 135 323 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Pecos River : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 64 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.8%, 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 521mm
AET
299mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
339cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)