HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080871010
Bassin de Río Choapa
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 1 administrative regions : Choapa
Sub-basin area
18,8km²
Upstream area
2 884,9km²
Discharge
14m³/s
Mean elev.
562m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Choapa2265 km²
- Bassin de Río Chalinga601 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
95 distinct species · 715 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Choapa : 20 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
15,2°C
Annual rain
227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
125mm/an
PET
1 324mm
AET
194mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
744cm
Forest
17%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)