HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080849630
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 2 administrative regions : Coyuca de Catalán, Pungarabato
Sub-basin area
91,7km²
Upstream area
63 200km²
Discharge
715,53m³/s
Mean elev.
338m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Balsas1098 km²
- Bassin de Río Balsas23 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.5 km²84.8% of basin
- 13.9 km²15.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
384 distinct species · 1 043 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 : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, 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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
983mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
271mm/an
PET
2 048mm
AET
830mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
307cm
Forest
3%
Crops
27%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)