HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080694850
Bassin de Rio Hondo
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
333km²
Upstream area
1 840,9km²
Discharge
0,48m³/s
Mean elev.
1 849m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ruidoso753 km²
- Bassin de Rio Bonito194 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lincoln319.4 km²95.9% of basin
- 13.5 km²4.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Capitan Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
9.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
298 distinct species · 2 333 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Hondo : 33 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
11,8°C
Annual rain
375mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 343mm
AET
319mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
858cm
Forest
61%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)