HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080788820
Bassin de Arroyo San Ignacio
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 1 administrative regions : Mulegé
Sub-basin area
888,9km²
Upstream area
2 110,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 887.5 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
El Vizcaíno
IUCN IaBiosphere Reserve
589.16 km² overlap
El Vizcaíno
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
589.16 km² overlap
Laguna San Ignacio
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
60.81 km² overlap
Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
52.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
818 distinct species · 21 454 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 San Ignacio : 32 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.4%, 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
111mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 799mm
AET
91mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
758cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)