HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080845210
Bassin de Río Tepalcatepec
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 5 administrative regions : Apatzingán, La Huacana, Múgica, Parácuaro, Tumbiscatío
Sub-basin area
631,3km²
Upstream area
11 551,1km²
Discharge
73,27m³/s
Mean elev.
431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río El Cortijo540 km²
- Bassin de Río Tepalcatepec51 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 219.8 km²34.9% of basin
- 176.9 km²28.1% of basin
- 158.7 km²25.2% of basin
- 54.8 km²8.7% of basin
- 19.2 km²3.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Zicuirán-Infiernillo
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
24.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
342 distinct species · 1 138 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Tepalcatepec : 36 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.6%, 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
739mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
202mm/an
PET
2 049mm
AET
619mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
400cm
Forest
48%
Crops
26%
Urban
2%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)