HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080801350
Bassin de Río Pilón
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 7 administrative regions : Arteaga, Galeana, General Terán, Los Ramones, Montemorelos +2
Sub-basin area
2 463,1km²
Upstream area
2 463,1km²
Discharge
4,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 484m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 624.8 km²25.4% of basin
- 589.9 km²24.0% of basin
- 458.6 km²18.7% of basin
- 442.7 km²18.0% of basin
- 331.2 km²13.5% of basin
- 6.9 km²0.3% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Natural Resources Protection Area
1364.06 km² overlap
Cumbres de Monterrey
IUCN IINational Park
116.27 km² overlap
Cumbres de Monterrey
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
116.27 km² overlap
Cerro El Potosí
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
0.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 791 distinct species · 34 530 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 Pilón : 34 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
17,6°C
Annual rain
662mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 523mm
AET
560mm
Mean slope
13,9°
Water table
561cm
Forest
77%
Crops
21%
Urban
1%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)