HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080853350
Bassin de Río La Sierra
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 1 administrative regions : Centro
Sub-basin area
47,7km²
Upstream area
6 803,2km²
Discharge
219,71m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Viejo Mezcalapa1793 km²
- Bassin de Río La Sierra305 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Laguna de las Ilusiones
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Reserve
1.03 km² overlap
Parque Ecológico Laguna del Camarón
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
0.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
829 distinct species · 4 104 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 La Sierra : 31 espèces reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 977mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
1 303mm/an
PET
1 791mm
AET
1 424mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
16cm
Forest
64%
Crops
76%
Urban
53%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)