HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080822070
Bassin de Rio Atengo
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 5 administrative regions : Del Nayar, Huejuquilla el Alto, Mezquital, Mezquitic, Valparaíso
Sub-basin area
1 914,5km²
Upstream area
8 780,7km²
Discharge
0,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 737m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Atengo785 km²
- Bassin de Rio Santiago333 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1503.7 km²78.7% of basin
- ValparaísoZacatecas · México352.2 km²18.4% of basin
- 34.1 km²1.8% of basin
- 11.9 km²0.6% of basin
- 7.7 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Resources Protection Area
794.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
738 distinct species · 1 732 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Rio Atengo : 31 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
711mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
37mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
601mm
Mean slope
17,5°
Water table
827cm
Forest
75%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)