HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080866190
Bassin de Río Chixoy
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Benemérito de las Américas, Chajul, Cobán, Ixcán, Uspantán
Sub-basin area
1 238,1km²
Upstream area
9 083,9km²
Discharge
339,08m³/s
Mean elev.
258m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chixoy1529 km²
- Bassin de Río Moxolá894 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 682.7 km²55.3% of basin
- 362.2 km²29.4% of basin
- 117.9 km²9.6% of basin
- 45.7 km²3.7% of basin
- 25.4 km²2.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Laguna Lachuá
IUCN IINational Park
32.35 km² overlap
Chajumpec
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
8.29 km² overlap
Entre Ríos
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
3.24 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
454 distinct species · 7 542 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 Chixoy : 8 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
3 339mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 761mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
1 550mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
139cm
Forest
57%
Crops
7%
Urban
4%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)