HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080644810
Bassin de Río Mercedes
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 1 administrative regions : Angel Sandoval
Sub-basin area
254,1km²
Upstream area
7 878,1km²
Discharge
47,87m³/s
Mean elev.
129m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mercedes1365 km²
- Bassin · #6080643100585 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 253.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
San Matías
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Integrated Management Area
164.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
169 distinct species · 278 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Mercedes : 17 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.8%, 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 475mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
204mm/an
PET
1 814mm
AET
1 241mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
69cm
Forest
44%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
65%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)