HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080833740
Bassin de Río Lerma
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 1 administrative regions : Poncitlán
Sub-basin area
42,3km²
Upstream area
41 791,1km²
Discharge
86,5m³/s
Mean elev.
1 518m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Lerma112 km²
- Bassin · #70808343801 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Chapala
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
42.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,0°C
Annual rain
824mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
83mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
696mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
8cm
Forest
10%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)