HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080864030
Bassin de Río de la Pasión
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Benemérito de las Américas, La Libertad, Sayaxché
Sub-basin area
1 012,2km²
Upstream area
11 933,3km²
Discharge
404,86m³/s
Mean elev.
154m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río El Subín1582 km²
- Bassin de Río de la Pasión71 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 832.6 km²82.5% of basin
- 175.9 km²17.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
471 distinct species · 12 093 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 de la Pasión : 16 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 829mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
767mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
1 297mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
41cm
Forest
60%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)