HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080658460
Bassin de Río Cigüela
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Ciudad Real, Toledo
Sub-basin area
359,5km²
Upstream area
3 659,1km²
Discharge
4,16m³/s
Mean elev.
664m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cigüela342 km²
- Bassin de Río Cigüela140 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 235.3 km²65.4% of basin
- 124.6 km²34.6% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Área esteparia de La Mancha norte
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
64.93 km² overlap
Humedales de La Mancha
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
41.25 km² overlap
Humedales de La Mancha
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
41.25 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
9.75 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
7.28 km² overlap
Lagunas de Alcázar de San Juan
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.71 km² overlap
Laguna de Salicor
IUCN IbNature Reserve
2.71 km² overlap
Laguna de la Sal
IUCN IbNature Reserve
0.57 km² overlap
Laguna de los Carros
IUCN IVMicroreserve
0.38 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Nature Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 340 distinct species · 211 525 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Bassin de Río Cigüela : 18 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
14,2°C
Annual rain
420mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
29mm/an
PET
1 204mm
AET
359mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
147cm
Forest
0%
Crops
74%
Urban
5%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)