HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080817700
Bassin · #7080817700
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 2 administrative regions : Mezquital, Valparaíso
Sub-basin area
152,5km²
Upstream area
4 602,5km²
Discharge
0,95m³/s
Mean elev.
1 717m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080817260830 km²
- Bassin · #7080817300615 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ValparaísoZacatecas · México90.9 km²59.8% of basin
- 61.2 km²40.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Resources Protection Area
71.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
56 distinct species · 99 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
574mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 623mm
AET
484mm
Mean slope
11,8°
Water table
633cm
Forest
64%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)