HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080785760
Bassin de Río Salado
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 4 administrative regions : Anáhuac, Juárez, Lampazos de Naranjo, Progreso
Sub-basin area
468,1km²
Upstream area
39 561,5km²
Discharge
24m³/s
Mean elev.
250m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Nadadores2497 km²
- Bassin de Rio Sabinas1709 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 217.4 km²46.5% of basin
- 141.0 km²30.2% of basin
- 82.3 km²17.6% of basin
- 26.6 km²5.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Río Sabinas
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
112.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
352 distinct species · 3 852 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Salado : 27 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
425mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
358mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
119cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)