HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080734270
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
392,1km²
Upstream area
90 060,7km²
Discharge
40,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 225m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grande1666 km²
- Bassin de Salatral Lateral601 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
1 intersecting protected areas
Médanos de Samalayuca
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
4.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
428 distinct species · 1 824 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 Río Bravo / Rio Grande : 26 espèces reliées par 139 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
190mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
659cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)