HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080831420
Bassin de Río Caliente
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 13 administrative regions : Ahualulco de Mercado, Ameca, El Arenal, Etzatlán, Magdalena +8
Sub-basin area
1 071km²
Upstream area
1 071km²
Discharge
4,86m³/s
Mean elev.
1 490m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 357.8 km²33.5% of basin
- 258.7 km²24.2% of basin
- 196.7 km²18.4% of basin
- 105.2 km²9.8% of basin
- 33.2 km²3.1% of basin
- 31.4 km²2.9% of basin
- 30.1 km²2.8% of basin
- 26.5 km²2.5% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- Ameca20.9 km² · 2.0%
- Tequila3.0 km² · 0.3%
- Villa Corona2.7 km² · 0.3%
- Tlajomulco de Zúñiga1.5 km² · 0.1%
- Magdalena0.3 km² · 0.0%
6 intersecting protected areas
La Primavera
IUCN VIFlora and Fauna Protection Area
179.90 km² overlap
La Primavera
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
179.90 km² overlap
Sierra del Águila
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Area
69.09 km² overlap
Presa La Vega
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
18.24 km² overlap
Piedras Bola
IUCN Not ReportedMunicipal Park
1.21 km² overlap
Natural Resources Protection Area
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 958 distinct species · 89 189 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 Caliente : 25 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
963mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 736mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
393cm
Forest
48%
Crops
42%
Urban
3%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)