HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080003550
Bassin de Río Suchiate
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 across 2 countries : Ayutla, Cacahoatán, Catarina, El Rodeo, El Tumbador +21
Sub-basin area
1 414,4km²
Upstream area
1 414,5km²
Discharge
48,95m³/s
Mean elev.
1 181m
Administrative coverage
26 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 253.6 km²18.0% of basin
- 229.7 km²16.3% of basin
- 140.9 km²10.0% of basin
- 116.3 km²8.3% of basin
- San SibinalSan Marcos · Guatemala84.7 km²6.0% of basin
- 76.8 km²5.4% of basin
- San MarcosSan Marcos · Guatemala60.6 km²4.3% of basin
- 58.4 km²4.1% of basin
18 moreFull L2 list
- Unión Juárez58.0 km² · 4.1%
- Tuxtla Chico56.2 km² · 4.0%
- San Rafaél Pie de la Cuesta46.5 km² · 3.3%
- Esquipulas Palo Gordo36.2 km² · 2.6%
- Frontera Hidalgo33.5 km² · 2.4%
- Catarina32.7 km² · 2.3%
- Cacahoatán32.0 km² · 2.3%
- Ocos26.5 km² · 1.9%
- El Tumbador22.7 km² · 1.6%
- El Rodeo18.8 km² · 1.3%
- Tacaná11.9 km² · 0.8%
- Metapa7.0 km² · 0.5%
- Nuevo Progreso5.9 km² · 0.4%
- San José Ojetenam0.5 km² · 0.0%
- San Pedro Sacatepéquez0.1 km² · 0.0%
- La Reforma0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Pajapita0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Tejutla0.0 km² · 0.0%
14 intersecting protected areas
Volcán Tajumulco
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
113.64 km² overlap
Volcan Tacaná
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
25.93 km² overlap
Volcán Tacaná
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
25.93 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
17.46 km² overlap
Volcán Tacaná
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
12.99 km² overlap
Australia
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
7.02 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
6.72 km² overlap
Zona Sujeta a Conservación Ecológica El Gancho - Murillo
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.27 km² overlap
Volcán Tacaná
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
5.09 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
El Gancho Murillo
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Conservation
4.94 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
3.28 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
0.96 km² overlap
San Rafael Pié de la Cuesta
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.45 km² overlap
La Igualdad
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 718 distinct species · 115 296 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Suchiate : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
2 806mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
1 078mm/an
PET
1 623mm
AET
1 249mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
357cm
Forest
62%
Crops
25%
Urban
13%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)