HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080821950
Bassin de Río Valles
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 : Antiguo Morelos, Ciudad Valles
Sub-basin area
720,6km²
Upstream area
720,6km²
Discharge
8,76m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ciudad VallesSan Luis Potosí · México662.5 km²92.2% of basin
- 56.3 km²7.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sierra del Abra Tanchipa
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
145.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 558 distinct species · 13 110 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Valles : 20 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 297mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
384mm/an
PET
1 618mm
AET
1 048mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
230cm
Forest
41%
Crops
34%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)