HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080716100
Bassin de Colorado 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 : Mitchell, Scurry
Sub-basin area
367,1km²
Upstream area
9 061,7km²
Discharge
1,98m³/s
Mean elev.
668m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Deep Creek705 km²
- Bassin de Colorado River599 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mitchell355.9 km²97.0% of basin
- 11.0 km²3.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
636 distinct species · 6 519 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Colorado River : 22 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.6%, 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°
17,4°C
Annual rain
546mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 486mm
AET
462mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
178cm
Forest
0%
Crops
49%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)