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Llanos el Salado

endorheic basin in Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ6661693 ↗
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Llanos el Salado is a large endorheic basin of central Mexico. It is located on the Mexican Plateau, and covers portions of several Mexican states, including eastern and northeastern Zacatecas, Northern San Luis Potosí, western Tamaulipas, southwestern Nuevo León, and southeastern Coahuila. El Salado blends into the Bolsón de Mapimí, another endorheic basin, on the north. The basin has an arid climate and is covered by deserts and xeric shrublands.

Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) divides the Llanos el Salado region into several basins:

Fresnillo-Yesca

Matehuala

Presa San José-Los Pilares y Otras

San Pablo y Otras

Sierra Madre

Sierra Madre Oriental

Sierra de Rodriguez

See also

Meseta Central matorral

References

Olson, D., Dinerstein, E., Canevari, P., Davidson, I., Castro, G., Morisset, V., Abell, R., and Toledo, E.; eds. (1998). Freshwater biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean: A conservation assessment.

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The public source identifies “Llanos el Salado” as endorheic basin in Mexico. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Llanos, Salado and endorheic.

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This entry incorporates text from “Llanos el Salado” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.