HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080003050
Bassin de Río Los Esclavos
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 27 administrative regions : Barberena, Casillas, Chiquimulilla, Conguaco, Cuilapa +22
Sub-basin area
2 091,9km²
Upstream area
2 091,9km²
Discharge
56,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 049m
Administrative coverage
27 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 318.7 km²15.3% of basin
- 261.0 km²12.5% of basin
- 187.5 km²9.0% of basin
- 180.8 km²8.7% of basin
- 151.4 km²7.3% of basin
- 150.4 km²7.2% of basin
- 126.3 km²6.1% of basin
- 107.1 km²5.1% of basin
19 moreFull L2 list
- San José Acatempa93.8 km² · 4.5%
- San Juan Tecuaco72.8 km² · 3.5%
- Fraijanes63.2 km² · 3.0%
- San José Pinula63.1 km² · 3.0%
- Barberena58.1 km² · 2.8%
- Mataquescuintla53.0 km² · 2.5%
- Santa Cruz Naranjo44.4 km² · 2.1%
- Pueblo Nuevo Viñas36.3 km² · 1.7%
- Pasaco30.7 km² · 1.5%
- Moyuta21.8 km² · 1.0%
- Jalpatagua21.6 km² · 1.0%
- San Carlos Alzatate16.7 km² · 0.8%
- Quezada9.8 km² · 0.5%
- Jutiapa9.6 km² · 0.5%
- Conguaco2.1 km² · 0.1%
- Santa Catarina Pinula1.6 km² · 0.1%
- Jalapa1.0 km² · 0.0%
- Taxisco0.8 km² · 0.0%
- Guazacapán0.5 km² · 0.0%
10 intersecting protected areas
Hawaii
IUCN IIIMultiple Use Area
9.74 km² overlap
Volcán Jumaytepeque
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
9.19 km² overlap
Volcán Tecuamburro
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
9.10 km² overlap
Volcán Cruz Quemada
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
2.58 km² overlap
Chagüite
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.67 km² overlap
Volcán Moyuta
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
1.40 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.94 km² overlap
El Espino
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.80 km² overlap
La Aventura
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.20 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Finca el Porvenir
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 822 distinct species · 18 193 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Los Esclavos : 28 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.4%, 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 817mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
805mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
1 050mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
338cm
Forest
17%
Crops
46%
Urban
7%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)