HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080812160
Bassin de Río Piaxtla
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 : Elota, Mazatlán, San Ignacio
Sub-basin area
1 560km²
Upstream area
6 440,8km²
Discharge
55,53m³/s
Mean elev.
443m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Piaxtla1811 km²
- Bassin de Río Piaxtla1499 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San IgnacioSinaloa · México1540.0 km²98.9% of basin
- 16.1 km²1.0% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 549 distinct species · 11 816 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Piaxtla : 30 espèces reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
942mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
246mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
777mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
478cm
Forest
95%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)