HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080847460
Bassin · #7080847460
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 3 administrative regions : Ignacio de la Llave, Tierra Blanca, Tlalixcoyan
Sub-basin area
67,8km²
Upstream area
3 001,6km²
Discharge
94,27m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Blanco1364 km²
- Bassin · #7080847250511 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ignacio de la LlaveVeracruz · México34.1 km²50.4% of basin
- Tierra BlancaVeracruz · México33.2 km²49.0% of basin
- TlalixcoyanVeracruz · México0.4 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sistema Lagunar Alvarado
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
67.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 275mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
1 109mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
981mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
60%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)