HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080848620
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, Huetamo, Turicato, Zirándaro
Sub-basin area
975,9km²
Upstream area
87 480,9km²
Discharge
965,14m³/s
Mean elev.
593m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Balsas495 km²
- Bassin de Río Balsas285 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 518.2 km²53.3% of basin
- 399.1 km²41.0% of basin
- 42.2 km²4.3% of basin
- 13.4 km²1.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
262 distinct species · 739 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 Balsas : 34 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
2 044mm
AET
733mm
Mean slope
14,6°
Water table
595cm
Forest
36%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)