HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080822250
Bassin de Río Tampaón
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 11 administrative regions : Aquismón, Ciudad Valles, Ebano, Huehuetlán, Jalpan de Serra +6
Sub-basin area
2 106,4km²
Upstream area
27 706,6km²
Discharge
111,51m³/s
Mean elev.
128m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Valles77 km²
- Bassin de Río Tampaón67 km²
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1176.5 km²56.0% of basin
- 287.7 km²13.7% of basin
- 278.2 km²13.2% of basin
- Ciudad VallesSan Luis Potosí · México208.8 km²9.9% of basin
- TancanhuitzSan Luis Potosí · México95.4 km²4.5% of basin
- San AntonioSan Luis Potosí · México33.7 km²1.6% of basin
- HuehuetlánSan Luis Potosí · México6.4 km²0.3% of basin
- Tampamolón CoronaSan Luis Potosí · México6.0 km²0.3% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Ebano5.2 km² · 0.2%
- Jalpan de Serra1.6 km² · 0.1%
- San Vicente Tancuayalab1.3 km² · 0.1%
4 intersecting protected areas
Sierra del Abra Tanchipa
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
30.18 km² overlap
Sierra Gorda
IUCN IaBiosphere Reserve
5.07 km² overlap
Sierra Gorda
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
5.07 km² overlap
El Bosque Adolfo Roque Bautista
IUCN Not ReportedState Park
0.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 343 distinct species · 20 494 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Tampaón : 22 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 324mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
463mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
1 043mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
172cm
Forest
5%
Crops
57%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)