HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080732840
Bassin de Río Bravo / 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 across 2 countries : El Paso, Guadalupe, Juárez
Sub-basin area
1 665,8km²
Upstream area
89 067,2km²
Discharge
40,77m³/s
Mean elev.
1 204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de West Side Canal2106 km²
- Bassin de American Canal Extension1370 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
3 intersecting protected areas
Rio Bosque
IUCN VWetlands Park
1.64 km² overlap
Médanos de Samalayuca
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
1.45 km² overlap
Feather Lake
IUCN VWildlife Sanctuary
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 127 distinct species · 168 753 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 Río Bravo / Rio Grande : 17 espèces reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 21.0%, 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°
17,1°C
Annual rain
223mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 636mm
AET
187mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
529cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
31%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)