HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080768520
Bassin de Río Sonora
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 : Hermosillo, San Miguel de Horcasitas, Ures
Sub-basin area
583,7km²
Upstream area
12 062,1km²
Discharge
6,36m³/s
Mean elev.
347m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sonora2039 km²
- Bassin de Río Sonora1187 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 460.5 km²79.0% of basin
- 115.8 km²19.9% of basin
- 6.5 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sistema de Presas Abelardo Rodríguez Luján - El Molinito
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
141.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
717 distinct species · 3 902 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Sonora : 28 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
405mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
1 815mm
AET
340mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
433cm
Forest
67%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)