HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080049280
Bassin de Río Cajas Pintas
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 : Matamoros, San Fernando, Valle Hermoso
Sub-basin area
2 000km²
Upstream area
2 000km²
Discharge
0,02m³/s
Mean elev.
5m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1706.3 km²85.5% of basin
- 49.3 km²2.5% of basin
- 11.6 km²0.6% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Laguna Madre y Delta del Río Bravo
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1199.86 km² overlap
Flora and Fauna Protection Area
1190.31 km² overlap
Laguna Madre
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
286.18 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
0.00 km² overlap
Lower Rio Grande Valley
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
989 distinct species · 7 330 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Cajas Pintas : 29 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
719mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 461mm
AET
608mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
13cm
Forest
3%
Crops
58%
Urban
1%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)