HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080768110
Bassin de Tornillo 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 1 administrative regions : Brewster
Sub-basin area
905,5km²
Upstream area
905,5km²
Discharge
0,63m³/s
Mean elev.
990m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 904.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Big Bend
IUCN IINational Park
786.77 km² overlap
Big Bend Proposed or Recom
IUCN IbRecommended Wilderness
623.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 106 distinct species · 42 778 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 Tornillo Creek : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
329mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
19mm/an
PET
1 646mm
AET
277mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
698cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)