HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080865750
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 2 administrative regions : Maravilla Tenejapa, Ocosingo
Sub-basin area
215,9km²
Upstream area
9 693,2km²
Discharge
431,16m³/s
Mean elev.
350m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Jataté1578 km²
- Bassin de Río Lacantún61 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 160.6 km²74.7% of basin
- 54.5 km²25.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Montes Azules
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
91.31 km² overlap
Montes Azules
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
91.31 km² overlap
Cerro El Mirador
IUCN VIVoluntary Conservation Area
2.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
383 distinct species · 2 016 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 : 13 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
3 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 906mm/an
PET
1 757mm
AET
1 516mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
366cm
Forest
80%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)