HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080763300
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Acuña, Brewster
Sub-basin area
597,8km²
Upstream area
200 694,4km²
Discharge
130,36m³/s
Mean elev.
855m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 484.1 km²81.1% of basin
- 113.0 km²18.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Black Gap
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
43.95 km² overlap
Río Bravo del Norte
IUCN VINatural Monument
0.90 km² overlap
Brushy Canyon Macrosite
IUCN VEasement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
449 distinct species · 2 223 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 : 28 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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
305mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 653mm
AET
257mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
744cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)