HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080032710
Bassin de Río Hondo
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 3 administrative regions : Guayaquil, Playas, Santa Elena
Sub-basin area
246km²
Upstream area
246,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 181.7 km²74.2% of basin
- 61.2 km²25.0% of basin
- Santa ElenaSanta Elena · Ecuador2.0 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Manglares El Morro
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
2.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
142 distinct species · 647 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Hondo : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
441mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
215mm/an
PET
1 565mm
AET
373mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
202cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)