HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080053520
Bassin de Río Papaloteca
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 11 administrative regions : Balfate, Guanaja, José Santos Guardiola, Jutiapa, La Ceiba +6
Sub-basin area
1 868,3km²
Upstream area
1 868,3km²
Discharge
2,29m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 449.2 km²24.1% of basin
- 432.5 km²23.2% of basin
- 380.1 km²20.4% of basin
- 136.4 km²7.3% of basin
- 86.5 km²4.6% of basin
- 82.3 km²4.4% of basin
- 57.2 km²3.1% of basin
- 50.8 km²2.7% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Santa Rosa de Aguán20.8 km² · 1.1%
- Sonaguera20.0 km² · 1.1%
- Olanchito0.8 km² · 0.0%
10 intersecting protected areas
Nombre de Dios
IUCN IINational Park
224.61 km² overlap
Laguna de Guaimoreto
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
84.77 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
73.39 km² overlap
Capiro - Calentura
IUCN IINational Park
71.49 km² overlap
Islas de la Bahía
IUCN VIMarine National Park
68.87 km² overlap
Guanaja 2
IUCN VIForest Reserve
27.04 km² overlap
Cayos Cochinos
IUCN IIMarine Natural Monument
20.75 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
7.52 km² overlap
Port Royal
IUCN IINational Park
5.00 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
El Carmen
IUCN Not ReportedPrivate Nature Reserve
1.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 513 distinct species · 30 697 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Papaloteca : 23 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 965mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
968mm/an
PET
1 628mm
AET
1 308mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
296cm
Forest
92%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)