HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080847240
Bassin de Río Balsas
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 : Churumuco, Coahuayutla de José María Izazag, Huetamo, Zirándaro
Sub-basin area
379,4km²
Upstream area
88 466,5km²
Discharge
975,18m³/s
Mean elev.
600m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Balsas976 km²
- Bassin de Río Guayameo606 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 192.7 km²50.9% of basin
- 141.1 km²37.3% of basin
- 40.2 km²10.6% of basin
- 4.3 km²1.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
111 distinct species · 194 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 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 Balsas : 10 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 17.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
810mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
211mm/an
PET
2 034mm
AET
682mm
Mean slope
17,4°
Water table
723cm
Forest
35%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)