HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080795380
Bassin de Río Bravo / Rio Grande
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Camargo, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Hidalgo, Reynosa, Starr
Sub-basin area
913,1km²
Upstream area
470 915,6km²
Discharge
257,35m³/s
Mean elev.
82m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 600.4 km²65.9% of basin
- 152.1 km²16.7% of basin
- Hidalgo75.6 km²8.3% of basin
- 72.1 km²7.9% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
60.85 km² overlap
Lower Rio Grande Valley
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
60.33 km² overlap
Las Palomas
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 245 distinct species · 22 820 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 Bravo / Rio Grande : 28 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
575mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
485mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
174cm
Forest
0%
Crops
32%
Urban
2%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)