World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · mex
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
- Area
- 7 291 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2013
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 2013
- 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
1 071 distinct species · 10 818 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 53 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 El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology14 basins · 0 lakes · 2 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
89,0km
Basins crossed
14
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
11 481km²
Discharge in basins
5,4m³/s
Mean precip.
110mm/an
Mean T°
21,8°C
Moisture idx
-0,93
Mean runoff
9mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
195m
Watersheds crossing here
- Basin #08590sub-area2 267,9 km²overlap2123.97 km²29%
- Basin #08550sub-area1 961,1 km²overlap1816.88 km²25%
- Bassin de San Cristobal Washsub-area2 679,3 km²overlap1352.09 km²18%
- Bassin de Río Sonoytasub-area1 798 km²overlap656.13 km²9%
- Basin #19560sub-area1 305,2 km²overlap421.28 km²6%
- Basin #08520sub-area425,1 km²overlap320.83 km²4%
- Basin #08600sub-area1 314,2 km²overlap168.77 km²2%
- Basin #23080sub-area927,9 km²overlap142.51 km²2%
- Basin #08560sub-area220,2 km²overlap138.14 km²2%
Rivers / streams (2, ord ≥ 4)
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
- 31.92824, -113.67939
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.