HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080864420
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 : Heroica Ciudad de Ejutla de Cres, San Agustín Amatengo, San Francisco Sola, San Vicente Coatlán, Villa Sola de Vega +1
Sub-basin area
57,3km²
Upstream area
5 070km²
Discharge
30,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 779m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Miahuatlán615 km²
- Bassin de Río Atoyac169 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 17.5 km²30.7% of basin
- 14.2 km²24.9% of basin
- 12.2 km²21.3% of basin
- 6.8 km²11.9% of basin
- 3.8 km²6.7% of basin
- 2.6 km²4.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,0°C
Annual rain
874mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
322mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
718mm
Mean slope
19,6°
Water table
698cm
Forest
86%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)