HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080799230
Bassin de Rio Salinas
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 15 administrative regions : Abasolo, Apodaca, Cerralvo, Ciénega de Flores, El Carmen +10
Sub-basin area
1 466,7km²
Upstream area
15 213,3km²
Discharge
13,7m³/s
Mean elev.
559m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Salinas1812 km²
- Bassin de Rio La Negra831 km²
15 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 676.9 km²46.2% of basin
- 184.5 km²12.6% of basin
- 165.3 km²11.3% of basin
- 133.4 km²9.1% of basin
- 97.6 km²6.7% of basin
- 64.7 km²4.4% of basin
- 37.6 km²2.6% of basin
- 37.4 km²2.6% of basin
7 moreFull L2 list
- García36.9 km² · 2.5%
- Pesquería26.5 km² · 1.8%
- Hidalgo2.5 km² · 0.2%
- Villaldama0.5 km² · 0.0%
- Cerralvo0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Mina0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Abasolo0.0 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Picachos
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
114.23 km² overlap
Sierra El Fraile y San Miguel
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
31.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 796 distinct species · 134 037 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Rio Salinas : 24 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.3%, 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
615mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 591mm
AET
519mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
387cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
5%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)