HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080002400
Bassin de Río Grande o Choluteca
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 2 administrative regions : Choluteca, Marcovia
Sub-basin area
18,7km²
Upstream area
8 087,6km²
Discharge
102,85m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande o Choluteca1333 km²
- Bassin de Río Sampile643 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 17.5 km²93.7% of basin
- 0.7 km²3.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sistema de Humedales de la Zona Sur de Honduras
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
8.49 km² overlap
San Bernardo
IUCN IVHabitat/Species Management Area
8.49 km² overlap
El Jicarito
IUCN IVHabitat/Species Management Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 49 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 Grande o Choluteca : 6 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 25.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 558mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
809mm/an
PET
1 908mm
AET
1 134mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
8cm
Forest
78%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)