HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080716530
Bassin de Rio Grande
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 : Dona Ana, Grant, Sierra
Sub-basin area
3 499,9km²
Upstream area
83 524,9km²
Discharge
38,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grande583 km²
- Bassin de Rio Grande279 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1851.9 km²52.9% of basin
- 1637.9 km²46.8% of basin
- Grant8.1 km²0.2% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
National Monument
555.62 km² overlap
Robledo Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
71.74 km² overlap
Broad Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Area
64.49 km² overlap
Sierra De Las Uvas
IUCN IbWilderness Area
52.67 km² overlap
Aldo Leopold
IUCN IbWilderness
25.45 km² overlap
Prehistoric Trackways
IUCN VNational Monument
21.30 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.72 km² overlap
Miners Dream Lode
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.09 km² overlap
Brush Heap Lode
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.09 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Andy Johnson Lode
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.08 km² overlap
Black Eyed Susan Lode
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 457 distinct species · 405 540 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Grande : 14 espèces reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
292mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 522mm
AET
247mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
715cm
Forest
41%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)