HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080823390
Bassin de Río Moctezuma
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 20 administrative regions : Aquismón, Axtla de Terrazas, Coxcatlán, El Higo, Huehuetlán +15
Sub-basin area
2 623,9km²
Upstream area
27 662,4km²
Discharge
195,12m³/s
Mean elev.
424m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo La Ceiba1175 km²
- Bassin de Río Amajac11 km²
20 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 398.5 km²15.2% of basin
- Tampamolón CoronaSan Luis Potosí · México256.7 km²9.8% of basin
- San Martín ChalchicuautlaSan Luis Potosí · México212.9 km²8.1% of basin
- Axtla de TerrazasSan Luis Potosí · México191.2 km²7.3% of basin
- 186.5 km²7.1% of basin
- 161.3 km²6.2% of basin
- Landa de MatamorosQuerétaro · México144.5 km²5.5% of basin
- Tanquián de EscobedoSan Luis Potosí · México143.4 km²5.5% of basin
12 moreFull L2 list
- San Vicente Tancuayalab136.3 km² · 5.2%
- Matlapa117.2 km² · 4.5%
- Tamazunchale105.3 km² · 4.0%
- Coxcatlán90.9 km² · 3.5%
- Tanlajás86.2 km² · 3.3%
- El Higo80.2 km² · 3.1%
- Pisaflores71.1 km² · 2.7%
- Huehuetlán65.0 km² · 2.5%
- San Antonio61.0 km² · 2.3%
- Aquismón56.0 km² · 2.1%
- Tancanhuitz42.0 km² · 1.6%
- Jalpan de Serra10.7 km² · 0.4%
3 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Gorda
IUCN IaBiosphere Reserve
171.53 km² overlap
Sierra Gorda
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
171.53 km² overlap
Las Cuevas del Viento y la Fertilidad
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Area
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 067 distinct species · 51 091 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Moctezuma : 27 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.4%, 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 682mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
555mm/an
PET
1 704mm
AET
1 223mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
371cm
Forest
13%
Crops
61%
Urban
3%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)