HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080845300
Bassin de Río Chiquito
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 4 administrative regions : Carácuaro, Huetamo, Nocupétaro, Turicato
Sub-basin area
175km²
Upstream area
2 161km²
Discharge
23,88m³/s
Mean elev.
644m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #70808440501103 km²
- Bassin · #7080844040337 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 167.5 km²96.0% of basin
- 5.6 km²3.2% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
54 distinct species · 88 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
988mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
281mm/an
PET
2 089mm
AET
833mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
602cm
Forest
85%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)