HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080040640
Bassin de Canal Mercante
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 : Carlos Casares, Nueve de Julio
Sub-basin area
397,5km²
Upstream area
10 654,2km²
Discharge
25,92m³/s
Mean elev.
79m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Canal El Alivio1151 km²
- Bassin de Canal Mercante5 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 316.0 km²79.5% of basin
- 81.5 km²20.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
102 distinct species · 333 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Canal Mercante : 20 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,6°C
Annual rain
1 001mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
111mm/an
PET
1 347mm
AET
848mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
14cm
Forest
5%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)