HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080732340
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 3 administrative regions : Coleman, Concho, McCulloch
Sub-basin area
1 499,9km²
Upstream area
60 803,4km²
Discharge
11,46m³/s
Mean elev.
484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Colorado River459 km²
- Bassin de Mustang Creek351 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 863.9 km²57.6% of basin
- 502.7 km²33.5% of basin
- 132.1 km²8.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
968 distinct species · 10 445 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 33 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
643mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
38mm/an
PET
1 550mm
AET
544mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
244cm
Forest
2%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)