HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080768180
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 : Brewster, Ocampo
Sub-basin area
239,7km²
Upstream area
196 048,3km²
Discharge
127,62m³/s
Mean elev.
853m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Grande548 km²
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grande475 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 218.0 km²91.1% of basin
- 21.4 km²8.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Big Bend
IUCN IINational Park
217.14 km² overlap
Big Bend Proposed or Recom
IUCN IbRecommended Wilderness
164.27 km² overlap
Ocampo
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
21.62 km² overlap
Río Bravo del Norte
IUCN VINatural Monument
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 290 distinct species · 40 176 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.4%, 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
295mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 694mm
AET
248mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
610cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)