HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080834460
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 3 administrative regions : Cojumatlán de Régules, Poncitlán, Venustiano Carranza
Sub-basin area
37,8km²
Upstream area
41 465,3km²
Discharge
85,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 539m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Jiquilpan1106 km²
- Bassin de Río Lerma229 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.1 km²77.2% of basin
- 6.3 km²16.6% of basin
- 2.3 km²6.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago de Chapala
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
30.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 59 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 6 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 Lerma : 6 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 3 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,5°C
Annual rain
775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
655mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
151cm
Forest
72%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)