HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080794540
Bassin de Los Olmos 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 3 administrative regions : Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata
Sub-basin area
1 376,7km²
Upstream area
1 376,7km²
Discharge
0,71m³/s
Mean elev.
132m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1105.5 km²80.4% of basin
- 267.6 km²19.5% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
8.18 km² overlap
Lower Rio Grande Valley
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
8.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 177 distinct species · 35 297 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 Los Olmos Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
552mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
465mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
235cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)