UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve · MEX
Cumbres de Monterrey
- Area
- 1 775 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2006
Overview
- Designation
- UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
- Established
- 2006
- Managing authority
- Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources through the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 146 distinct species · 119 808 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Cumbres de Monterrey : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, 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).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
182,9km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 499km²
Discharge in basins
2,4m³/s
Mean precip.
638mm/an
Mean T°
18,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,58
Mean runoff
43mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 243m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Santa Catarinasub-area1 866,1 km²overlap1086.81 km²61%
- Bassin de Rio Ramossub-area929,8 km²overlap409.09 km²23%
- Bassin de Río Pilónsub-area2 463,1 km²overlap116.27 km²7%
- Bassin de Río San Juansub-area594,7 km²overlap99.47 km²6%
- Bassin de Río Pesqueríasub-area1 535,9 km²overlap54.39 km²3%
- Bassin de Río San Juansub-area1 104,3 km²overlap6.65 km²0%
- Bassin de Arroyo El Saucillosub-area1 703,2 km²overlap1.90 km²0%
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Santa Catarinaord 4len here57.31 km40%total142 km
- Rio Adjuntasord 3len here20.32 km97%total21 km
- El Blanquilloord 2len here17.79 km49%total36 km
- San Judasord 3len here13.73 km100%total14 km
- Las Escalerasord 2len here12.26 km100%total12 km
- Santa Julianaord 1len here11.15 km100%total11 km
- Puerto del Tejocoteord 1len here9.63 km100%total10 km
- Cañada El Rincón del Llanoord 2len here9.19 km47%total20 km
- La Cebollaord 1len here7.89 km100%total8 km
- Arroyo Carrizalesord 2len here7.10 km100%total7 km
- Arroyo El Álamoord 1len here4.16 km54%total8 km
- Arroyo Lagunillasord 1len here2.81 km100%total3 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Arroyo Cortinasord 1len here2.15 km20%total11 km
- Río Pilónord 4len here1.89 km1%total195 km
- Arroyo El Calabozoord 2len here1.74 km22%total8 km
- Arroyo San Juanord 5len here1.51 km3%total54 km
- Arroyo El Blanquilloord 1len here1.17 km75%total2 km
- Arroyo La Lagunillaord 1len here0.94 km100%total1 km
- Arroyo Elizondoord 1len here0.20 km3%total7 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
- 25.35542, -100.30619
- 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.