HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080826050
Bassin de Río Tempoal
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 8 administrative regions : Atlapexco, Chalma, Chicontepec, Huautla, Platón Sánchez +3
Sub-basin area
866,1km²
Upstream area
2 161,7km²
Discharge
44,24m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080828360508 km²
- Bassin · #7080828410102 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ChicontepecVeracruz · México369.7 km²42.8% of basin
- 241.7 km²28.0% of basin
- 186.8 km²21.6% of basin
- 31.9 km²3.7% of basin
- Platón SánchezVeracruz · México16.4 km²1.9% of basin
- 8.7 km²1.0% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.5% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Cascada de Cuatenahuatl
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation Area
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
692 distinct species · 2 175 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Tempoal : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 383mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
676mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 153mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
269cm
Forest
9%
Crops
73%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)