HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080003140
Bassin de Río Guacalate
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 30 administrative regions : Acatenango, Alotenango, Antigua Guatemala, Chimaltenango, Ciudad Vieja +25
Sub-basin area
1 197,1km²
Upstream area
1 197,1km²
Discharge
48,43m³/s
Mean elev.
999m
Administrative coverage
30 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 323.4 km²27.1% of basin
- La DemocraciaEscuintla · Guatemala134.6 km²11.3% of basin
- 98.6 km²8.3% of basin
- San JoséEscuintla · Guatemala86.3 km²7.2% of basin
- 79.2 km²6.6% of basin
- 75.5 km²6.3% of basin
- 68.1 km²5.7% of basin
- San Andrés ItzapaChimaltenango · Guatemala54.7 km²4.6% of basin
22 moreFull L2 list
- San Miguel Dueñas44.0 km² · 3.7%
- Pastores39.0 km² · 3.3%
- Ciudad Vieja35.1 km² · 2.9%
- Parramos26.5 km² · 2.2%
- Sumpango21.9 km² · 1.8%
- El Tejar21.0 km² · 1.8%
- Chimaltenango17.1 km² · 1.4%
- Jocotenango9.6 km² · 0.8%
- Santa Catarina Barahona8.3 km² · 0.7%
- Palín7.9 km² · 0.7%
- Santa María de Jesús7.5 km² · 0.6%
- Yepocapa7.5 km² · 0.6%
- Santa Lucía Milpas Altas7.1 km² · 0.6%
- Magdalena Milpas Altas6.4 km² · 0.5%
- San Antonio Aguas Calientes5.4 km² · 0.5%
- Acatenango3.8 km² · 0.3%
- La Gomera1.8 km² · 0.1%
- San Bartolomé Milpas Altas1.7 km² · 0.1%
- Zaragoza0.5 km² · 0.0%
- Santiago Sacatepéquez0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Patzicía0.1 km² · 0.0%
- San Lucas Sacatepéquez0.0 km² · 0.0%
19 intersecting protected areas
Volcán Fuego
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
48.78 km² overlap
Volcán Agua
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
31.11 km² overlap
Volcán Acatenango
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
20.49 km² overlap
San Sebastian
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
9.51 km² overlap
El Zapote
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
5.21 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
2.67 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
1.67 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
1.57 km² overlap
San Diego
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.40 km² overlap
10 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Regional Municipal Park
1.10 km² overlap
Finca La Travesía
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.03 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
1.00 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
0.86 km² overlap
Concepción Chuitó
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.36 km² overlap
Los Aposentos
IUCN IINational Park
0.32 km² overlap
Sipacate - Naranjo
IUCN IINational Park
0.23 km² overlap
Chuya
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.19 km² overlap
Finca San José Prem
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Astillero Cerro Nimachay
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 072 distinct species · 171 321 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Guacalate : 17 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
2 146mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
1 218mm/an
PET
1 555mm
AET
1 096mm
Mean slope
7,8°
Water table
198cm
Forest
50%
Crops
31%
Urban
19%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)