HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080845230
Bassin de Río Blanco
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 20 administrative regions : Acultzingo, Aquila, Atzitzintla, Camerino Z. Mendoza, Cañada Morelos +15
Sub-basin area
702,8km²
Upstream area
702,8km²
Discharge
11,9m³/s
Mean elev.
2 237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
20 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- AcultzingoVeracruz · México154.2 km²22.0% of basin
- 110.6 km²15.8% of basin
- NogalesVeracruz · México64.2 km²9.2% of basin
- Mariano EscobedoVeracruz · México59.4 km²8.5% of basin
- AtzitzintlaPuebla · México52.8 km²7.5% of basin
- IxhuatlancilloVeracruz · México51.6 km²7.4% of basin
- 42.0 km²6.0% of basin
- Soledad AtzompaVeracruz · México35.8 km²5.1% of basin
12 moreFull L2 list
- Esperanza32.2 km² · 4.6%
- Aquila20.2 km² · 2.9%
- Huiloapan de Cuauhtémoc17.2 km² · 2.5%
- Río Blanco15.2 km² · 2.2%
- Orizaba14.8 km² · 2.1%
- Camerino Z. Mendoza13.7 km² · 2.0%
- Cañada Morelos7.8 km² · 1.1%
- Chalchicomula de Sesma3.1 km² · 0.4%
- Rafael Delgado2.3 km² · 0.3%
- Nicolás Bravo2.0 km² · 0.3%
- Ixtaczoquitlán0.8 km² · 0.1%
- Chapulco0.5 km² · 0.1%
2 intersecting protected areas
Cañón del Río Blanco
IUCN IINational Park
412.21 km² overlap
Pico de Orizaba
IUCN IINational Park
31.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 267 distinct species · 53 311 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Blanco : 20 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,9°C
Annual rain
1 071mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
534mm/an
PET
1 454mm
AET
803mm
Mean slope
15,8°
Water table
557cm
Forest
88%
Crops
41%
Urban
14%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)