HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080867420
Bassin de Rio Huista
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 11 administrative regions : Colotenango, La Democracia, San Antonio Huista, San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán, San Juan Atitán +6
Sub-basin area
423,2km²
Upstream area
423,3km²
Discharge
11,5m³/s
Mean elev.
2 002m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San Pedro NectaHuehuetenango · Guatemala103.7 km²24.6% of basin
- La DemocraciaHuehuetenango · Guatemala101.1 km²24.0% of basin
- Santiago ChimaltenangoHuehuetenango · Guatemala82.1 km²19.5% of basin
- San Antonio HuistaHuehuetenango · Guatemala47.0 km²11.1% of basin
- San Juan AtitánHuehuetenango · Guatemala39.9 km²9.5% of basin
- Todos Santos CuchumatánHuehuetenango · Guatemala24.8 km²5.9% of basin
- San Sebastián HuehuetenangoHuehuetenango · Guatemala13.8 km²3.3% of basin
- ColotenangoHuehuetenango · Guatemala4.8 km²1.1% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Santa Ana Huista4.4 km² · 1.0%
- San Rafael Petzal0.1 km² · 0.0%
- San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán0.1 km² · 0.0%
5 intersecting protected areas
Regional Municipal Park
38.44 km² overlap
Montaña Negra
IUCN IVRegional Park
0.62 km² overlap
La Montañita
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.29 km² overlap
Cerro Mampil
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.10 km² overlap
Bosque Tz'ahab' Tonh
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 004 distinct species · 16 008 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Huista : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
16,8°C
Annual rain
1 689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
926mm/an
PET
1 475mm
AET
1 062mm
Mean slope
19,0°
Water table
584cm
Forest
31%
Crops
28%
Urban
6%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)