HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080823040
Bassin de Rio Tampaon
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 3 administrative regions : Aquismón, Ciudad Valles, Tamasopo
Sub-basin area
368,7km²
Upstream area
21 665,8km²
Discharge
57,11m³/s
Mean elev.
323m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Gallinas1244 km²
- Bassin de Rio Santa Maria116 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 270.3 km²73.5% of basin
- Ciudad VallesSan Luis Potosí · México94.5 km²25.7% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Arroyos y manantiales de Tanchachín
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
11.76 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
562 distinct species · 1 981 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Tampaon : 25 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.9%, 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 739mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
402mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 235mm
Mean slope
9,7°
Water table
450cm
Forest
50%
Crops
54%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)