HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080719200
Bassin de Río Colorado
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 across 2 countries : Mexicali, San Luis Río Colorado, Yuma
Sub-basin area
705,7km²
Upstream area
617 835,6km²
Discharge
112,77m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de East Main Canal999 km²
- Bassin de Colorado River751 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 485.8 km²68.9% of basin
- 194.2 km²27.5% of basin
- 25.2 km²3.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sistema de Humedales Remanentes del Delta del Río Colorado
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
120.13 km² overlap
Humedales del Delta del Río Colorado
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
9.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
628 distinct species · 34 124 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 Colorado : 32 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
67mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 903mm
AET
53mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
38cm
Forest
2%
Crops
17%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)