HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080865840
Bassin de Río Pojom
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 7 administrative regions across 2 countries : La Independencia, La Trinitaria, Las Margaritas, Nentón, San Mateo Ixtatán +2
Sub-basin area
720,5km²
Upstream area
720,5km²
Discharge
39,93m³/s
Mean elev.
1 734m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San Mateo IxtatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala287.7 km²40.1% of basin
- 260.4 km²36.3% of basin
- 154.6 km²21.5% of basin
- Santa Cruz BarillasHuehuetenango · Guatemala7.0 km²1.0% of basin
- San Sebastián CoatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala6.2 km²0.9% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Lagunas de Montebello
IUCN IINational Park
23.81 km² overlap
Lagunas de Montebello
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
23.81 km² overlap
Parque Nacional Lagunas de Montebello
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
23.81 km² overlap
Tziscao
IUCN VIVoluntary Conservation Area
11.01 km² overlap
Häk Yahx Luúm
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
2.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 575 distinct species · 30 280 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Pojom : 26 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
2 531mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
1 636mm/an
PET
1 526mm
AET
1 317mm
Mean slope
11,6°
Water table
372cm
Forest
34%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)