HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080789410
Bassin de Arroyo La Puerta Colorada
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 : Cuatro Ciénegas
Sub-basin area
187,9km²
Upstream area
3 651,3km²
Discharge
4,33m³/s
Mean elev.
795m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cañón Grano De Oro1018 km²
- Bassin · #7080790020722 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 187.6 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Cuatrociénegas
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
170.52 km² overlap
Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Cuatrociénegas
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
170.52 km² overlap
Cuatrociénegas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
170.52 km² overlap
C.A.D.N.R. 004 Don Martín
IUCN VINatural Resources Protection Area
10.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 310 distinct species · 10 711 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 La Puerta Colorada : 38 espèces dont 6 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 89 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
225mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
29mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
189mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
250cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)