HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080851480
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 : Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Tlapehuala
Sub-basin area
81,7km²
Upstream area
60 423,2km²
Discharge
687,39m³/s
Mean elev.
334m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Balsas1715 km²
- Bassin de Río Balsas171 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.0 km²92.1% of basin
- 6.4 km²7.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
106 distinct species · 131 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 : 9 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 14 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 006mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
292mm/an
PET
2 008mm
AET
845mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
227cm
Forest
63%
Crops
22%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)