HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080827960
Bassin de Río Ameca
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 : Ahuacatlán, Amatlán de Cañas, Guachinango, Mascota, San Sebastián del Oeste
Sub-basin area
519,1km²
Upstream area
6 643,7km²
Discharge
49,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 250m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ameca2495 km²
- Bassin de Río Ameca1890 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 255.5 km²49.4% of basin
- 170.3 km²32.9% of basin
- 90.8 km²17.5% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Natural Resources Protection Area
350.03 km² overlap
Sierra de Vallejo-Río Ameca
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
207.53 km² overlap
Sierra de Vallejo-Río Ameca
IUCN IaBiosphere Reserve
2.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
151 distinct species · 206 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Ameca : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
20,6°C
Annual rain
999mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
440mm/an
PET
1 728mm
AET
807mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
563cm
Forest
46%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)