HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080787680
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 2 administrative regions : Anáhuac, Lampazos de Naranjo
Sub-basin area
451,1km²
Upstream area
45 040,9km²
Discharge
26,77m³/s
Mean elev.
203m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Canal Principal318 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado12 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 340.4 km²75.6% of basin
- 109.9 km²24.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
177 distinct species · 593 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.3%, 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
434mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
365mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
100cm
Forest
0%
Crops
19%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)