HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080841400
Bassin de Rio Tuxpan
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 14 administrative regions : Angangueo, Aporo, Hidalgo, Irimbo, Jungapeo +9
Sub-basin area
1 906,1km²
Upstream area
1 906,1km²
Discharge
19,2m³/s
Mean elev.
2 191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
14 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 804.9 km²42.4% of basin
- 239.6 km²12.6% of basin
- 231.4 km²12.2% of basin
- 189.7 km²10.0% of basin
- 125.8 km²6.6% of basin
- 75.5 km²4.0% of basin
- 64.0 km²3.4% of basin
- 58.4 km²3.1% of basin
6 moreFull L2 list
- Zitácuaro50.2 km² · 2.6%
- Zinapécuaro30.5 km² · 1.6%
- Senguio17.2 km² · 0.9%
- Maravatío7.3 km² · 0.4%
- San José del Rincón5.5 km² · 0.3%
- Queréndaro0.6 km² · 0.0%
4 intersecting protected areas
Mariposa Monarca
IUCN IaBiosphere Reserve
147.02 km² overlap
Mariposa Monarca
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
147.02 km² overlap
Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
33.54 km² overlap
Cerro de Garnica
IUCN IINational Park
0.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 158 distinct species · 34 790 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Rio Tuxpan : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
15,8°C
Annual rain
1 079mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
288mm/an
PET
1 504mm
AET
830mm
Mean slope
12,1°
Water table
578cm
Forest
82%
Crops
21%
Urban
5%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)