HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080852280
Bassin de Río Atoyac
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 6 administrative regions : Albino Zertuche, Chiautla, Cohetzala, Ixcamilpa de Guerrero, Xicotlán +1
Sub-basin area
404,5km²
Upstream area
22 384,7km²
Discharge
229,82m³/s
Mean elev.
1 128m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Atoyac395 km²
- Bassin de Río Atoyac294 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 155.2 km²38.5% of basin
- ChiautlaPuebla · México95.2 km²23.6% of basin
- Ixcamilpa de GuerreroPuebla · México75.8 km²18.8% of basin
- Albino ZertuchePuebla · México54.5 km²13.5% of basin
- 20.6 km²5.1% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
178 distinct species · 331 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Atoyac : 8 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
842mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
228mm/an
PET
2 017mm
AET
711mm
Mean slope
13,6°
Water table
645cm
Forest
96%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)