Flora and Fauna Protection Area · mex
Cañón de Santa Elena
- Area
- 2 777 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 1994
Overview
- Designation
- Flora and Fauna Protection Area
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 1994
- Managing authority
- National Commission of Natural Protected Areas
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 446 distinct species · 74 911 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Cañón de Santa Elena : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 2 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
232,5km
Lake surface here
0,50km²
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
188 231km²
Discharge in basins
163,1m³/s
Mean precip.
303mm/an
Mean T°
19,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,82
Mean runoff
24mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 120m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area1 503,9 km²overlap695.88 km²25%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area2 380,8 km²overlap645.92 km²23%
- Bassin de San Carlossub-area739,4 km²overlap515.07 km²19%
- Bassin de San Antoniosub-area445 km²overlap275.31 km²10%
- Bassin de Arroyo el Nogalsub-area1 832,5 km²overlap235.99 km²8%
- Bassin de San Antoniosub-area222,7 km²overlap222.41 km²8%
- Bassin de San Antoniosub-area170,9 km²overlap122.21 km²4%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area77,8 km²overlap49.30 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grandesub-area11,7 km²overlap11.43 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Bravo / Rio Grandeord 7len here109.96 km3%total3249 km
- San Carlosord 4len here38.17 km100%total38 km
- San Antonioord 4len here26.00 km56%total46 km
- A. El Mataderoord 2len here12.43 km100%total12 km
- Arroyo las Maguasord 2len here11.53 km99%total12 km
- Tinajaord 2len here11.16 km44%total26 km
- Arroyo el Nogalord 7len here7.74 km13%total58 km
- A. la Selvaord 3len here7.69 km31%total25 km
- Cañon el Gringoord 2len here5.02 km100%total5 km
- A. el Cebaderoord 4len here1.61 km30%total5 km
- Alamo Creekord 7len here1.20 km2%total78 km
- Closed Canyon Creekord 7len here0.03 km1%total4 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 29.10747, -103.81890
- Open in maps
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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.