HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080759390
Bassin de Arroyo el Gavilan
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 5 administrative regions : Bacerac, Casas Grandes, Janos, Madera, Nácori Chico
Sub-basin area
1 018,2km²
Upstream area
1 018,2km²
Discharge
0,82m³/s
Mean elev.
2 090m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Casas GrandesChihuahua · México529.2 km²52.0% of basin
- 438.1 km²43.1% of basin
- 44.1 km²4.3% of basin
- 5.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Campo Verde
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
521.71 km² overlap
Janos
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
44.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
478 distinct species · 2 216 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Arroyo el Gavilan : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
12,8°C
Annual rain
492mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
1 428mm
AET
416mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
805cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
51%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)