HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080759710
Bassin de Sink 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 : Comal, Hays
Sub-basin area
234,8km²
Upstream area
235km²
Discharge
1,62m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 215.4 km²91.9% of basin
- 19.1 km²8.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Purgatory Creek
IUCN VNatural Area
2.03 km² overlap
Spring Lake
IUCN VNatural Area
1.02 km² overlap
Ringtail Ridge
IUCN VNatural Area
0.18 km² overlap
Schulle Canyon
IUCN VNatural Area
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 359 distinct species · 272 119 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Sink Creek : 37 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
1 487mm
AET
735mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
230cm
Forest
79%
Crops
11%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)