HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080799910
Bassin de Río Colorado
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 3 administrative regions : Guadalupe y Calvo, Guanaceví, Tepehuanes
Sub-basin area
87,5km²
Upstream area
1 059,9km²
Discharge
7,96m³/s
Mean elev.
2 249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Colorado697 km²
- Bassin de Río Colorado275 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 57.6 km²66.0% of basin
- TepehuanesDurango · México20.5 km²23.5% of basin
- Guadalupe y CalvoChihuahua · México9.2 km²10.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
14,7°C
Annual rain
852mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
1 453mm
AET
721mm
Mean slope
18,0°
Water table
722cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)