North Plains -- Cataloging Unit 13020206

• Rio Grande-Elephant Butte Accounting Unit 130202
  
• Rio Grande-Elephant Butte Subregion 1302
  
• Rio Grande Region 13 (There are 70 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% New Mexico.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 3034.3 km² ( 1172.1 mi² ) [% in USA = 47.32, % in Region = 37.14]
  The area from the USGS is 1130 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 416)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1211492 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 2258.6 m ( 7410.0 ft ) [% in USA = 97.35, % in Region = 88.57]
  The elevation standard deviation is 106.1 m ( 348.1 ft ) [% in USA = 56.99, % in Region = 20.00]
  The coefficient of variation is 4.7 %.
  The vertical relief is 780.9 m ( 2562.0 ft ) [% in USA = 61.77, % in Region = 22.86]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1962.1	2146.4	2193.0	2199.0	2224.1	2252.5	2265.3	2307.3	2336.5	2379.2	2743.0
  feet	6437.3	7041.9	7194.8	7214.5	7296.8	7390.0	7432.0	7569.8	7665.6	7805.7	8999.2

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	5.7	3.6	0.002	0.003	4.59	40.00
  Intermittent Shoreline	74.2	46.1	0.024	0.039	93.32	94.29
  Perennial Streams	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	1.99	17.14
  Intermittent Streams	921.7	572.8	0.304	0.489	45.57	18.57
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	40.00
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	47.14
  2° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	15.35	12.86
  3° roads	150.8	93.7	0.050	0.080	46.04	82.86
  4° roads	1873.8	1164.5	0.618	0.994	12.36	14.29
  Total Roads	2024.6	1258.3	0.667	1.074	12.93	17.14
  Railroads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	12.60	27.14
  Pipes and Powerlines	13.5	8.4	0.004	0.007	16.39	44.29

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 99.43% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 98.29, % in Region = 80.00]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu