HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080800960
Bassin de Río San Juan
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 : Cadereyta Jiménez, Juárez, Monterrey, Santa Catarina, Santiago
Sub-basin area
594,7km²
Upstream area
594,9km²
Discharge
0,83m³/s
Mean elev.
615m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 263.7 km²44.4% of basin
- 208.3 km²35.1% of basin
- 59.4 km²10.0% of basin
- Juárez53.7 km²9.0% of basin
- Santa Catarina8.5 km²1.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Cumbres de Monterrey
IUCN IINational Park
99.48 km² overlap
Cumbres de Monterrey
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
99.47 km² overlap
Sierra Cerro de la Silla
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
75.65 km² overlap
Cerro de la Silla
IUCN IIINatural Monument
10.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 389 distinct species · 81 952 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 San Juan : 22 espèces reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
835mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 626mm
AET
704mm
Mean slope
9,3°
Water table
537cm
Forest
69%
Crops
21%
Urban
7%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)