HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080005830
Bassin de El Zacate
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 : Armería, Manzanillo
Sub-basin area
494,8km²
Upstream area
494,9km²
Discharge
3,93m³/s
Mean elev.
196m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ManzanilloColima · México373.4 km²75.7% of basin
- 119.8 km²24.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Laguna de Cuyutlán vasos III y IV
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
88.17 km² overlap
Canoas
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
0.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 931 distinct species · 29 252 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 El Zacate : 26 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
909mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
250mm/an
PET
1 779mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
343cm
Forest
26%
Crops
41%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)