HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080865780
Bassin de Río Ixcán
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 16 administrative regions across 2 countries : Aguacatán, Chajul, Chiantla, Concepción Huista, Ixcán +11
Sub-basin area
2 241,8km²
Upstream area
2 241,9km²
Discharge
184,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 478m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Santa Cruz BarillasHuehuetenango · Guatemala880.8 km²39.4% of basin
- Santa EulaliaHuehuetenango · Guatemala345.7 km²15.5% of basin
- 243.5 km²10.9% of basin
- San Juan IxcoyHuehuetenango · Guatemala169.7 km²7.6% of basin
- 141.2 km²6.3% of basin
- 109.6 km²4.9% of basin
- San Mateo IxtatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala101.8 km²4.6% of basin
- 70.2 km²3.1% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- Todos Santos Cuchumatán59.1 km² · 2.6%
- Ocosingo36.5 km² · 1.6%
- San Sebastián Coatán29.7 km² · 1.3%
- San Rafael La Independencia23.4 km² · 1.0%
- Ixcán14.2 km² · 0.6%
- Chajul7.6 km² · 0.3%
- Aguacatán0.6 km² · 0.0%
- Concepción Huista0.4 km² · 0.0%
8 intersecting protected areas
Covirey
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
16.09 km² overlap
Yal Unin Yul Witz
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
7.64 km² overlap
Nuevo Mirador Chiblac
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
3.11 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
2.86 km² overlap
Asunlaq
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.87 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
0.42 km² overlap
Agua Dulce
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 785 distinct species · 13 948 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Ixcán : 24 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
2 924mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
2 009mm/an
PET
1 542mm
AET
1 346mm
Mean slope
16,5°
Water table
523cm
Forest
73%
Crops
6%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)