HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080848300
Bassin de Tesechoacán
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 5 administrative regions : Amatitlán, Carlos A. Carrillo, Isla, José Azueta, Tlacotalpan
Sub-basin area
753,3km²
Upstream area
5 910,5km²
Discharge
296,36m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tesechoacán901 km²
- Bassin de Río Tesechoacán488 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 335.5 km²44.7% of basin
- José AzuetaVeracruz · México247.9 km²33.0% of basin
- TlacotalpanVeracruz · México89.1 km²11.9% of basin
- 55.6 km²7.4% of basin
- Carlos A. CarrilloVeracruz · México22.8 km²3.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sistema Lagunar Alvarado
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
91.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
699 distinct species · 4 862 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Tesechoacán : 24 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 390mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
1 368mm/an
PET
1 638mm
AET
1 084mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
14cm
Forest
6%
Crops
80%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)