HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080848120
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 3 administrative regions : Jojutla, Puente de Ixtla, Tlaquiltenango
Sub-basin area
65,3km²
Upstream area
6 114km²
Discharge
75,56m³/s
Mean elev.
974m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Yautepec2352 km²
- Bassin de Río Amacuzac179 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 28.9 km²44.4% of basin
- 27.7 km²42.6% of basin
- 8.4 km²12.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de Huautla
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
35.55 km² overlap
Sierra de Huautla
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
35.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
354 distinct species · 1 067 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 : 37 espèces reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
877mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
283mm/an
PET
2 082mm
AET
739mm
Mean slope
9,7°
Water table
471cm
Forest
87%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
55%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)