HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080727360
Bassin de West Side Canal
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 across 2 countries : Dona Ana, El Paso, Juárez
Sub-basin area
2 106km²
Upstream area
86 031,7km²
Discharge
39,67m³/s
Mean elev.
1 270m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grande3500 km²
- Bassin · #7080077040532 km²
- Bassin de Picacho Drain401 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1716.0 km²81.5% of basin
- 278.7 km²13.2% of basin
- JuárezChihuahua · México109.9 km²5.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
National Monument
246.81 km² overlap
Aden Lava Flow
IUCN IbWilderness Area
49.58 km² overlap
Organ Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness Area
34.56 km² overlap
Westside Open
IUCN VReserve
0.26 km² overlap
Picacho Bosque Tract
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 570 distinct species · 683 132 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 West Side Canal : 19 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.4%, 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°
16,3°C
Annual rain
238mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 585mm
AET
200mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
526cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
14%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)