HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080851260
Bassin de Río Zapotitlán
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 9 administrative regions : Ajalpan, Altepexi, Atexcal, Caltepec, San Gabriel Chilac +4
Sub-basin area
939,1km²
Upstream area
939,4km²
Discharge
8,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 643m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ZapotitlánPuebla · México316.1 km²33.8% of basin
- San José MiahuatlánPuebla · México202.8 km²21.7% of basin
- 201.2 km²21.5% of basin
- San Gabriel ChilacPuebla · México109.3 km²11.7% of basin
- 45.1 km²4.8% of basin
- 40.4 km²4.3% of basin
- ZinacatepecPuebla · México10.5 km²1.1% of basin
- 10.1 km²1.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Ajalpan0.7 km² · 0.1%
3 intersecting protected areas
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
704.98 km² overlap
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
703.99 km² overlap
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
211.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 288 distinct species · 41 198 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Zapotitlán : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
18,9°C
Annual rain
464mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
328mm/an
PET
1 707mm
AET
392mm
Mean slope
9,0°
Water table
378cm
Forest
70%
Crops
18%
Urban
4%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)