HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080865150
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 1 administrative regions : Sayaxché
Sub-basin area
62,3km²
Upstream area
6 618,6km²
Discharge
293,37m³/s
Mean elev.
139m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Machaquilá1210 km²
- Bassin de Río de La Pasión50 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Private Natural Reserve
1.96 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
1.63 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,1°C
Annual rain
2 189mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
1 146mm/an
PET
1 508mm
AET
1 355mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
38cm
Forest
94%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)