Wilderness Area · usa
Sangre de Cristo
- Area
- 890 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Ib
- Year
- 1993
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- Ib · Zone de nature sauvage
Aire protégée pour la wilderness, faible accès humain
- Established
- 1993
- Managing authority
- National Park Service ; Forest Service
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 137 distinct species · 9 188 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Sangre de Cristo : 30 espèces reliées par 118 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 24 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
58,4km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
1
Max drainage
7 516km²
Discharge in basins
1,1m³/s
Mean precip.
382mm/an
Mean T°
3,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,58
Max snow
25%
Mean runoff
13mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 668m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de San Luis Creeksub-area1 892,6 km²overlap274.31 km²31%
- Bassin de Arkansas Riversub-area1 974 km²overlap192.75 km²22%
- Bassin de Grape Creeksub-area1 403,6 km²overlap124.44 km²14%
- Bassin de Little Spring Creeksub-area308,4 km²overlap97.13 km²11%
- Bassin de Sand Creeksub-area217,3 km²overlap79.54 km²9%
- Bassin de Franklin Eddy Canalsub-area794,1 km²overlap59.12 km²7%
- Bassin de Huerfano Riversub-area378 km²overlap45.86 km²5%
- Bassin de Muddy Creeksub-area325,8 km²overlap15.97 km²2%
- Bassin de Trinchera Creeksub-area1 317,8 km²overlap0.92 km²0%
Rivers / streams (24, ord ≥ 4)
- Sand Creekord 1len here11.42 km66%total17 km
- Cotton Creekord 1len here7.01 km38%total19 km
- Medano Creekord 2len here6.27 km31%total20 km
- Big Cottonwood Creekord 4len here5.74 km7%total86 km
- Wales Travis Ditchord 2len here4.43 km17%total26 km
- Huerfano Riverord 5len here3.09 km1%total250 km
- Deadman Creekord 3len here2.62 km9%total28 km
- Cold Creekord 2len here2.25 km14%total16 km
- South Colony Creekord 1len here2.24 km31%total7 km
- Swift Creekord 2len here1.87 km13%total15 km
- North Colony Creekord 1len here1.64 km34%total5 km
- San Isabel Creekord 2len here1.63 km7%total24 km
12 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- North Brush Creekord 2len here1.45 km6%total24 km
- Major Creekord 1len here1.43 km5%total30 km
- North Fork North Creston Creekord 1len here1.08 km7%total15 km
- North Prong Hayden Creekord 1len here1.05 km53%total2 km
- North Zapata Creekord 1len here0.98 km4%total26 km
- South Zapata Creekord 1len here0.52 km3%total18 km
- Hayden Creekord 2len here0.48 km2%total24 km
- North Lake Creekord 1len here0.38 km4%total10 km
- Wild Cherry Creekord 1len here0.29 km2%total18 km
- Willow Creekord 4len here0.21 km0%total128 km
- Mosca Creekord 1len here0.20 km6%total4 km
- San Luis Company Ditchord 3len here0.17 km1%total24 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 38.06055, -105.64990
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.