HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080867000
Bassin de Rio Azul
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 : Concepción Huista, Jacaltenango, La Democracia, La Trinitaria, Nentón +11
Sub-basin area
1 081,8km²
Upstream area
1 081,8km²
Discharge
36,29m³/s
Mean elev.
1 897m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Santa Ana HuistaHuehuetenango · Guatemala184.0 km²17.1% of basin
- Todos Santos CuchumatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala158.5 km²14.7% of basin
- JacaltenangoHuehuetenango · Guatemala151.1 km²14.0% of basin
- San Miguel AcatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala138.8 km²12.9% of basin
- San Sebastián CoatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala127.7 km²11.8% of basin
- Concepción HuistaHuehuetenango · Guatemala110.3 km²10.2% of basin
- 91.0 km²8.4% of basin
- San Antonio HuistaHuehuetenango · Guatemala64.7 km²6.0% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- San Rafael La Independencia24.1 km² · 2.2%
- La Democracia6.9 km² · 0.6%
- San Juan Ixcoy6.1 km² · 0.6%
- La Trinitaria4.9 km² · 0.5%
- Santiago Chimaltenango4.8 km² · 0.4%
- Soloma4.3 km² · 0.4%
- San Pedro Necta0.7 km² · 0.1%
- Santa Eulalia0.1 km² · 0.0%
8 intersecting protected areas
Regional Municipal Park
18.14 km² overlap
Covirey
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
6.19 km² overlap
Montaña Aq'oma'
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
2.90 km² overlap
Bosque Yul Ha' Saj Ha'
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
1.24 km² overlap
La Vieja Catarina
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
1.02 km² overlap
Xetaj
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.49 km² overlap
Bosque Tz'ahab' Tonh
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.46 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 688 distinct species · 21 580 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Rio Azul : 24 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
1 720mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
1 159mm/an
PET
1 497mm
AET
1 094mm
Mean slope
16,7°
Water table
530cm
Forest
65%
Crops
21%
Urban
3%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)