HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080005410
Bassin de Río Balsas
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 3 administrative regions : Arteaga, La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oc, Lázaro Cárdenas
Sub-basin area
396km²
Upstream area
111 463,9km²
Discharge
1 145,93m³/s
Mean elev.
279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 5 basins
- Bassin · #70800746002432 km²
- Bassin de Río2081 km²
- Bassin · #7080851680488 km²
- Bassin · #7080078090378 km²
- Bassin de Río Balsas32 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 263.3 km²66.7% of basin
- 98.7 km²25.0% of basin
- 32.8 km²8.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
403 distinct species · 880 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Balsas : 30 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 019mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
202mm/an
PET
1 861mm
AET
852mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
453cm
Forest
66%
Crops
21%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)