HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080833640
Bassin de El Mesonate
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 7 administrative regions : Ayotoxco de Guerrero, Espinal, Hueyapan, Hueytamalco, Papantla +2
Sub-basin area
308,6km²
Upstream area
6 370,5km²
Discharge
178,41m³/s
Mean elev.
229m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Tecolutla2812 km²
- Bassin de Tamuco128 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TenampulcoPuebla · México124.0 km²40.3% of basin
- 66.8 km²21.7% of basin
- Ayotoxco de GuerreroPuebla · México63.1 km²20.5% of basin
- HueytamalcoPuebla · México20.1 km²6.5% of basin
- 16.3 km²5.3% of basin
- 9.7 km²3.1% of basin
- 7.8 km²2.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
511 distinct species · 1 104 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 El Mesonate : 37 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 826mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
1 076mm/an
PET
1 612mm
AET
1 308mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
242cm
Forest
7%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)