HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080713460
Bassin de Río Tijuana
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 : Tecate, Tijuana
Sub-basin area
384,8km²
Upstream area
2 516,1km²
Discharge
3,99m³/s
Mean elev.
446m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tijuana516 km²
- Bassin de Río Tijuana116 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 307.3 km²79.9% of basin
- 77.2 km²20.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
803 distinct species · 4 551 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Tijuana : 38 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
16,2°C
Annual rain
305mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
1 414mm
AET
260mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
607cm
Forest
63%
Crops
29%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)