HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080751150
Bassin de Independence Creek
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 2 administrative regions : Pecos, Terrell
Sub-basin area
2 000,5km²
Upstream area
2 000,5km²
Discharge
0,95m³/s
Mean elev.
848m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Terrell1168.8 km²58.5% of basin
- 829.7 km²41.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Private Conservation Land
65.00 km² overlap
Independence Creek Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.70 km² overlap
Independence Creek
IUCN VEasement
1.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 734 distinct species · 40 803 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Independence Creek : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
381mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 558mm
AET
322mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
479cm
Forest
0%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)