HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080847640
Bassin de Río Amacuzac
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 : Amacuzac, Buenavista de Cuéllar, Jojutla, Puente de Ixtla
Sub-basin area
178,5km²
Upstream area
3 696,5km²
Discharge
51,75m³/s
Mean elev.
1 125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chalma1102 km²
- Bassin de Río Salado407 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 122.9 km²69.1% of basin
- 44.7 km²25.2% of basin
- 9.6 km²5.4% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de Huautla
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
65.31 km² overlap
Sierra de Huautla
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
65.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 468 distinct species · 5 609 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 Amacuzac : 23 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
993mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
301mm/an
PET
2 018mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
411cm
Forest
57%
Crops
25%
Urban
3%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)