HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080850290
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
22,9km²
Upstream area
62 010,4km²
Discharge
703,72m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río El Espíritu1217 km²
- Bassin de Río Balsas226 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.5 km²63.6% of basin
- 8.3 km²36.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
289 distinct species · 698 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 19 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
977mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
2 050mm
AET
825mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
45cm
Forest
40%
Crops
43%
Urban
26%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)