HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080833220
Bassin de Río Grande de Santiago
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 : Jamay, Ocotlán, Poncitlán
Sub-basin area
45,7km²
Upstream area
43 700km²
Discharge
92,63m³/s
Mean elev.
1 549m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo San Marcos1863 km²
- Bassin de Río Lerma42 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 28.1 km²61.7% of basin
- 15.9 km²35.0% of basin
- 1.5 km²3.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Chapala
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
18.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
193 distinct species · 1 909 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Grande de Santiago : 21 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 708mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
208cm
Forest
24%
Crops
54%
Urban
20%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)