HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080759500
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 : Acuña, Brewster, Terrell
Sub-basin area
140,7km²
Upstream area
207 305,9km²
Discharge
134,96m³/s
Mean elev.
681m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.5 km²56.6% of basin
- 60.9 km²43.4% of basin
- Terrell0.1 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Río Bravo del Norte
IUCN VINatural Monument
0.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
157 distinct species · 409 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
310mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
1 648mm
AET
261mm
Mean slope
7,6°
Water table
803cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)