HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080817180
Bassin · #7080817180
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 : Moctezuma, Salinas, Villa de Ramos
Sub-basin area
154,3km²
Upstream area
1 962,2km²
Discharge
5,44m³/s
Mean elev.
2 039m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080816370827 km²
- Bassin · #7080816410619 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 65.5 km²42.5% of basin
- 53.1 km²34.5% of basin
- Villa de RamosSan Luis Potosí · México35.4 km²23.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
331mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 689mm
AET
279mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
374cm
Forest
1%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)