World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · mex
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica
- Area
- 1 455 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2018
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 2018
- Managing authority
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 436 distinct species · 27 827 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology16 basins · 0 lakes · 16 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
259,0km
Basins crossed
16
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
11 544km²
Discharge in basins
67,6m³/s
Mean precip.
656mm/an
Mean T°
17,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,59
Mean runoff
477mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 785m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Hondosub-area1 062,7 km²overlap437.11 km²30%
- Bassin de Río Xiquilasub-area1 082,9 km²overlap239.76 km²16%
- Bassin de Río Zapotitlánsub-area939,1 km²overlap211.85 km²15%
- Bassin de Río Saladosub-area426 km²overlap168.67 km²12%
- Bassin de Río Grandesub-area799 km²overlap130.49 km²9%
- Bassin de Río San Antoniosub-area913,3 km²overlap66.85 km²5%
- Bassin de Río Sabinosub-area389,2 km²overlap65.48 km²5%
- Bassin de Río Grandesub-area172,4 km²overlap29.53 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Grandesub-area2 065,2 km²overlap29.20 km²2%
7 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Río Saladosub-area333,9 km²overlap25.67 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Apoalasub-area362,1 km²overlap23.87 km²2%
- Bassin de Río Grandesub-area178,6 km²overlap14.25 km²1%
- Basin #51200sub-area415,2 km²overlap8.97 km²1%
- Bassin de Baaranca Oscurasub-area77,8 km²overlap2.56 km²0%
- Bassin de Río Grandesub-area64,2 km²overlap0.79 km²0%
- Bassin de Río Grandesub-area422,3 km²overlap0.02 km²0%
Rivers / streams (16, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Xiquilaord 4len here44.47 km77%total58 km
- Río Saladoord 5len here34.31 km27%total128 km
- Río Calapaord 3len here25.77 km62%total42 km
- Río Sabinoord 3len here25.24 km49%total51 km
- Río Hondoord 3len here23.75 km51%total47 km
- Río Zapotitlánord 3len here23.67 km20%total121 km
- Río La Compuertaord 3len here19.91 km100%total20 km
- Río Grandeord 6len here16.75 km3%total535 km
- Río Tomellínord 4len here15.35 km100%total15 km
- Río San Antonioord 4len here7.83 km10%total80 km
- Río Apoalaord 3len here6.14 km20%total30 km
- Cañada Largaord 1len here5.47 km100%total5 km
4 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 17.97837, -97.18264
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.