HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080865180
Bassin de Río Jataté
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 4 administrative regions : Altamirano, Las Margaritas, Maravilla Tenejapa, Ocosingo
Sub-basin area
1 577,7km²
Upstream area
6 531,9km²
Discharge
239m³/s
Mean elev.
656m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio de la Virgen2611 km²
- Bassin de Rio Tzaconeja2441 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1293.2 km²82.2% of basin
- 139.1 km²8.8% of basin
- 130.4 km²8.3% of basin
- 9.7 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Montes Azules
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
654.02 km² overlap
Montes Azules
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
654.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 802 distinct species · 8 104 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Jataté : 20 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
2 841mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
1 451mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
1 452mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
304cm
Forest
70%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)