HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080697920
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 3 administrative regions : Catron, Grant, Greenlee
Sub-basin area
751,6km²
Upstream area
5 328,9km²
Discharge
1,33m³/s
Mean elev.
1 732m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de San Francisco River1564 km²
- Bassin de Spruce Creek247 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 317.3 km²42.2% of basin
- Grant300.8 km²40.0% of basin
- 133.1 km²17.7% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Hell Hole
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
36.75 km² overlap
Lower San Francisco
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
27.47 km² overlap
Lower San Francisco
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
809 distinct species · 8 925 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 : 30 espèces reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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
469mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 449mm
AET
397mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
980cm
Forest
71%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)