HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080853980
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 : Eduardo Neri, Tepecoacuilco de Trujano
Sub-basin area
38km²
Upstream area
46 908,9km²
Discharge
524,69m³/s
Mean elev.
665m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chiquito1132 km²
- Bassin de Río Balsas705 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.6 km²78.2% of basin
- 8.3 km²21.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
450 distinct species · 3 340 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.9%, 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
833mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
234mm/an
PET
1 988mm
AET
705mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
560cm
Forest
84%
Crops
12%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)