HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080697660
Bassin de San Francisco 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 : Catron, Greenlee
Sub-basin area
1 564,3km²
Upstream area
4 330,3km²
Discharge
1,25m³/s
Mean elev.
2 017m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tularosa River1690 km²
- Bassin de San Francisco River332 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1507.4 km²96.4% of basin
- 56.3 km²3.6% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Blue Range
IUCN IbWilderness
114.17 km² overlap
Gila
IUCN IbWilderness
111.77 km² overlap
Primitive Area
30.01 km² overlap
Lower San Francisco
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
1.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 943 distinct species · 52 455 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 San Francisco River : 16 espèces reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.4%, 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
484mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 349mm
AET
410mm
Mean slope
11,6°
Water table
872cm
Forest
88%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)