HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080833380
Bassin de Río Uriangato
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 11 administrative regions : Cuitzeo, Huandacareo, Jaral del Progreso, Morelos, Moroleón +6
Sub-basin area
1 184,6km²
Upstream area
1 184,7km²
Discharge
2,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 929m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 635.9 km²53.8% of basin
- 125.8 km²10.6% of basin
- Valle de SantiagoGuanajuato · México92.9 km²7.9% of basin
- Santiago MaravatíoGuanajuato · México82.1 km²7.0% of basin
- SalvatierraGuanajuato · México76.3 km²6.5% of basin
- 71.7 km²6.1% of basin
- 67.2 km²5.7% of basin
- Jaral del ProgresoGuanajuato · México27.7 km²2.3% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Huandacareo0.9 km² · 0.1%
- Morelos0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Cuitzeo0.3 km² · 0.0%
4 intersecting protected areas
Laguna de Yuriria
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
151.19 km² overlap
Laguna de Yuriria y su Zona de Influencia
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Restoration
150.14 km² overlap
Cerro de los Amoles
IUCN Not ReportedSustainable Use Area
69.83 km² overlap
Lago Cráter La Joya
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Park
14.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 354 distinct species · 14 125 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Uriangato : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
754mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
637mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
422cm
Forest
87%
Crops
42%
Urban
5%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)