HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080819610
Bassin de Río El Mezquital
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 4 administrative regions : Acaponeta, Del Nayar, Huajicori, Mezquital
Sub-basin area
1 413,7km²
Upstream area
22 706,6km²
Discharge
39,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 283m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río El Mezquital510 km²
- Bassin de Río El Mezquital438 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 660.0 km²46.8% of basin
- 444.4 km²31.5% of basin
- 173.5 km²12.3% of basin
- 132.2 km²9.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Resources Protection Area
1090.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
434 distinct species · 2 600 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 El Mezquital : 25 espèces reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 068mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 558mm
AET
844mm
Mean slope
19,1°
Water table
800cm
Forest
77%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)