HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080851210
Bassin de Río Zapoteco
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 18 administrative regions : Acultzingo, Ajalpan, Altepexi, Atexcal, Cañada Morelos +13
Sub-basin area
1 290,1km²
Upstream area
2 253,7km²
Discharge
24,55m³/s
Mean elev.
1 991m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #7080848240516 km²
- Bassin · #7080848130448 km²
18 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 295.4 km²23.0% of basin
- 241.2 km²18.8% of basin
- Vicente GuerreroPuebla · México124.1 km²9.6% of basin
- 108.6 km²8.4% of basin
- Nicolás BravoPuebla · México106.4 km²8.3% of basin
- San Antonio CañadaPuebla · México80.0 km²6.2% of basin
- Santiago MiahuatlánPuebla · México62.4 km²4.8% of basin
- 61.0 km²4.7% of basin
10 moreFull L2 list
- Zinacatepec52.4 km² · 4.1%
- Tepanco de López49.0 km² · 3.8%
- Zoquitlán28.9 km² · 2.2%
- Atexcal20.2 km² · 1.6%
- Cañada Morelos19.1 km² · 1.5%
- Acultzingo13.7 km² · 1.1%
- San José Miahuatlán13.2 km² · 1.0%
- Altepexi6.7 km² · 0.5%
- Juan N. Méndez3.0 km² · 0.2%
- Coyomeapan0.7 km² · 0.1%
3 intersecting protected areas
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
253.39 km² overlap
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
252.12 km² overlap
Cañón del Río Blanco
IUCN IINational Park
2.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 608 distinct species · 16 872 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Zapoteco : 41 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.0%, 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°
16,5°C
Annual rain
701mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
458mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
582mm
Mean slope
13,1°
Water table
495cm
Forest
86%
Crops
21%
Urban
7%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)