HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080003300
Bassin de Río Nahualate
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 26 administrative regions : Cantel, Chicacao, Nahualá, Patulul, Río Bravo +21
Sub-basin area
1 548,7km²
Upstream area
1 549km²
Discharge
95,73m³/s
Mean elev.
899m
Administrative coverage
26 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 250.5 km²16.2% of basin
- 198.0 km²12.8% of basin
- Santa Catarina IxtahuacanSololá · Guatemala187.9 km²12.2% of basin
- 159.3 km²10.3% of basin
- 158.7 km²10.3% of basin
- 127.7 km²8.3% of basin
- 86.2 km²5.6% of basin
- 76.2 km²4.9% of basin
18 moreFull L2 list
- San Antonio Suchitepéquez62.0 km² · 4.0%
- Santiago Atitlán59.3 km² · 3.8%
- Totonicapán30.5 km² · 2.0%
- San Miguel Panán26.4 km² · 1.7%
- San Pablo Jocopilas25.6 km² · 1.7%
- Patulul17.4 km² · 1.1%
- San Juan La Laguna17.1 km² · 1.1%
- Santa María Visitación16.9 km² · 1.1%
- Santo Tomás La Unión13.9 km² · 0.9%
- Santa Lucía Utatlán9.6 km² · 0.6%
- Santa Clara La Laguna7.7 km² · 0.5%
- San Pedro La Laguna6.6 km² · 0.4%
- San Bernardino2.8 km² · 0.2%
- Cantel1.2 km² · 0.1%
- Zunil1.0 km² · 0.1%
- Samayac0.4 km² · 0.0%
- Zunilito0.1 km² · 0.0%
- San Juan Bautista0.0 km² · 0.0%
18 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca del Lago Atitlán
IUCN IIIMultiple Use Area
210.00 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
31.55 km² overlap
Volcán Zunil
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
28.37 km² overlap
Volcán Santo Tomás
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
22.00 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
20.21 km² overlap
Monte de Oro y anexos
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
9.98 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
9.88 km² overlap
Milán y Anexos
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
8.42 km² overlap
Cerro Panan
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
7.59 km² overlap
9 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Los Andes
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
4.57 km² overlap
Zunil
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
1.68 km² overlap
María del Mar
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.40 km² overlap
Las Nubes
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.11 km² overlap
Cerro Chuiraxamoló
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
1.02 km² overlap
Cerro Ajaw
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.70 km² overlap
Los Castaños
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.40 km² overlap
Las Maravillas
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.31 km² overlap
Los Tarrales
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 652 distinct species · 60 580 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Nahualate : 10 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
2 667mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 539mm/an
PET
1 632mm
AET
1 229mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
210cm
Forest
54%
Crops
17%
Urban
9%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)