HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080053240
Bassin de Río Motagua
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 7 administrative regions across 2 countries : Azacualpa, Morales, Omoa, Puerto Barrios, Quimistán +2
Sub-basin area
1 555,7km²
Upstream area
16 329,8km²
Discharge
310,62m³/s
Mean elev.
327m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Motagua781 km²
- Bassin de Rio San Fransisco307 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 578.4 km²37.3% of basin
- 382.1 km²24.6% of basin
- 231.2 km²14.9% of basin
- 162.2 km²10.5% of basin
- 155.3 km²10.0% of basin
- 29.0 km²1.9% of basin
- 12.1 km²0.8% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Caral
IUCN IIIWater and Forest Reserve
149.89 km² overlap
Cusuco
IUCN IINational Park
144.46 km² overlap
Punta de Manabique
IUCN IIIWildlife Refuge
103.78 km² overlap
Punta de Manabique
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
79.79 km² overlap
Cerro San Gil
IUCN IIIWatershed Protection Reserve
34.40 km² overlap
Cuyamel
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
19.54 km² overlap
Omoa
IUCN IINational Park
19.15 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
17.16 km² overlap
Cuevas de Silvino
IUCN IINational Park
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 008 distinct species · 61 609 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 Motagua : 14 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 891mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
886mm/an
PET
1 576mm
AET
1 340mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
229cm
Forest
66%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)