Nazas: Balneario La Concha
Ecoregion
Mayran - Viesca
Drainage
Nazas
Country
Durango
Published:
28-Dec-2023
Last updated on:
28-Dec-2023
Balneario La Concha
Balneario La Concha, Nazas drainage [Durango]. Photo by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas. (24.732514°N, 104.089728°W). Photo by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas. (02-May-2023).
Ecoregion
Mayran - Viesca
Country
Durango

The locality profile for Nazas: Balneario La Concha, within the Mayran - Viesca ecoregion, introduces this freshwater setting through FFM’s curated geographic and natural-history context. It provides an accessible overview of the locality’s general description, its aquatic environment, its conservation context and the curator’s broader observations. The account emphasizes the locality as an aquatic environment and the broader themes that help explain its character, without reducing the profile to a species checklist or disclosing sensitive site details. By bringing the available sections together in one focused narrative, the profile offers a useful starting point for understanding the locality’s place in its drainage and wider landscape, while inviting readers to explore the complete account..

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Conservation: The main conservation problem at La Concha is the huge amount of fish of exotic species, namely Oreochromis aureus and Poeciliopsis gracilis. Cyprinodon nazas are still abundant, but their numbers are much lower than during a previous visit to the place more than ten years ago. I blame this on the exotic species, mainly Poeciliopsis gracilis (Artigas Azas, 2023).