HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080053290
Bassin de Río Chamelecón
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 35 administrative regions across 2 countries : Azacualpa, Choloma, Concepción, Concepción del Norte, Dolores +30
Sub-basin area
4 447,7km²
Upstream area
4 447,7km²
Discharge
100,39m³/s
Mean elev.
514m
Administrative coverage
35 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 604.6 km²13.6% of basin
- 572.0 km²12.9% of basin
- 375.1 km²8.5% of basin
- 278.1 km²6.3% of basin
- 244.7 km²5.5% of basin
- 233.9 km²5.3% of basin
- San MarcosSanta Bárbara · Honduras222.3 km²5.0% of basin
- 209.9 km²4.7% of basin
27 moreFull L2 list
- Villanueva187.9 km² · 4.2%
- Azacualpa186.9 km² · 4.2%
- Puerto Cortés180.6 km² · 4.1%
- Nueva Arcadia155.9 km² · 3.5%
- Nueva Frontera122.7 km² · 2.8%
- Protección119.4 km² · 2.7%
- San Antonio119.4 km² · 2.7%
- La Jigua115.8 km² · 2.6%
- La Lima93.6 km² · 2.1%
- San Manuel66.6 km² · 1.5%
- San Nicolás65.2 km² · 1.5%
- Trinidad59.6 km² · 1.3%
- San Jerónimo51.4 km² · 1.2%
- Trinidad de Copán45.5 km² · 1.0%
- Dolores32.7 km² · 0.7%
- San José de Colinas25.2 km² · 0.6%
- Concepción del Norte17.2 km² · 0.4%
- Concepción15.3 km² · 0.3%
- Dulce Nombre11.8 km² · 0.3%
- El Paraíso11.2 km² · 0.3%
- Morales3.2 km² · 0.1%
- Veracruz1.8 km² · 0.0%
- El Progreso1.4 km² · 0.0%
- San Agustín0.4 km² · 0.0%
- Naranjito0.2 km² · 0.0%
- San José0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Tela0.0 km² · 0.0%
11 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Reserve
294.71 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
54.06 km² overlap
National Park
54.06 km² overlap
Cerro Azul
IUCN IINational Park
28.10 km² overlap
Cusuco
IUCN IINational Park
6.20 km² overlap
Sistema de Humedal Laguna de Alvarado
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.94 km² overlap
Laguna Ticamaya
IUCN VIMultiple Use Area
4.43 km² overlap
Trifinio Fraternidad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
3.08 km² overlap
Sierra Caral
IUCN IIIWater and Forest Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hacienda Tara
IUCN Not ReportedPrivate Nature Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Omoa
IUCN IINational Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 350 distinct species · 137 224 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 Chamelecón : 29 espèces reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.3%, 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 564mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
739mm/an
PET
1 656mm
AET
1 225mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
325cm
Forest
52%
Crops
16%
Urban
9%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)