HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080864970
Bassin de Río Lacantún
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 12 administrative regions across 2 countries : Aguacatán, Benemérito de las Américas, Chajul, Chiantla, Cunén +7
Sub-basin area
2 009,9km²
Upstream area
13 945,1km²
Discharge
758,56m³/s
Mean elev.
902m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ixcán2242 km²
- Bassin de Río Lacantún216 km²
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 624.4 km²31.2% of basin
- 457.8 km²22.9% of basin
- 284.6 km²14.2% of basin
- 270.8 km²13.5% of basin
- 188.4 km²9.4% of basin
- Santa Cruz BarillasHuehuetenango · Guatemala77.3 km²3.9% of basin
- 34.6 km²1.7% of basin
- 31.1 km²1.6% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- Aguacatán16.9 km² · 0.8%
- Santa Eulalia10.6 km² · 0.5%
- Cunén5.2 km² · 0.3%
- Chiantla1.1 km² · 0.1%
5 intersecting protected areas
Montes Azules
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
232.83 km² overlap
Montes Azules
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
232.83 km² overlap
Ixil Visis-Cabá
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
115.81 km² overlap
Reserva Las Guacamayas
IUCN VIVoluntary Conservation Area
12.15 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 122 distinct species · 75 468 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Lacantún : 18 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
2 799mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 828mm/an
PET
1 615mm
AET
1 396mm
Mean slope
10,3°
Water table
310cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)