HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080765960
Bassin de Río Moctezuma
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 : San Pedro de la Cueva, Tepache
Sub-basin area
146,6km²
Upstream area
5 633,2km²
Discharge
6,22m³/s
Mean elev.
676m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Moctezuma1455 km²
- Bassin de Río Moctezuma830 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 114.7 km²78.3% of basin
- 31.7 km²21.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 18 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,3°C
Annual rain
542mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,71
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 875mm
AET
458mm
Mean slope
13,7°
Water table
746cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)