HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080074220
Bassin de Río Grande
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 28 administrative regions : Acuitzio, Acámbaro, Charo, Chucándiro, Copándaro +23
Sub-basin area
3 959,1km²
Upstream area
3 959,1km²
Discharge
21,38m³/s
Mean elev.
2 110m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
28 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1007.4 km²25.5% of basin
- 432.2 km²10.9% of basin
- 255.9 km²6.5% of basin
- 254.1 km²6.4% of basin
- 195.9 km²5.0% of basin
- 181.5 km²4.6% of basin
- 173.3 km²4.4% of basin
- 166.0 km²4.2% of basin
20 moreFull L2 list
- Queréndaro159.7 km² · 4.0%
- Álvaro Obregón159.5 km² · 4.0%
- Acámbaro147.6 km² · 3.7%
- Acuitzio137.8 km² · 3.5%
- Santa Ana Maya104.1 km² · 2.6%
- Huandacareo95.3 km² · 2.4%
- Pátzcuaro80.2 km² · 2.0%
- Lagunillas72.5 km² · 1.8%
- Huiramba65.7 km² · 1.7%
- Salvatierra60.1 km² · 1.5%
- Uriangato44.6 km² · 1.1%
- Morelos41.6 km² · 1.1%
- Moroleón34.0 km² · 0.9%
- Quiroga24.0 km² · 0.6%
- Hidalgo15.6 km² · 0.4%
- Tzintzuntzan15.5 km² · 0.4%
- Yuriria14.2 km² · 0.4%
- Huaniqueo5.3 km² · 0.1%
- Madero3.2 km² · 0.1%
- Tacámbaro0.8 km² · 0.0%
10 intersecting protected areas
National Park
19.79 km² overlap
Manantial La Mintzita y su Zona de Amortiguamiento
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
4.17 km² overlap
Ex-Escuela Central Agrícola de la Huerta
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
2.71 km² overlap
Las Tinajas de Huandacareo
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
2.54 km² overlap
Cerro Punhuato
IUCN Not ReportedState Park
1.19 km² overlap
Ecológico del Fideicomiso de la Cd. Industrial de Morelia
IUCN Not ReportedCity Park
0.89 km² overlap
Cerro de Garnica
IUCN IINational Park
0.65 km² overlap
La Mintzita
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.57 km² overlap
Parque Francisco Zarco
IUCN Not ReportedCity Park
0.18 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Instituto Tec. Agropecuario No 7
IUCN Not ReportedCity Park
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 968 distinct species · 279 529 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Grande : 23 espèces reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
1 569mm
AET
714mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
422cm
Forest
57%
Crops
30%
Urban
9%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)