HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080867510
Bassin de Río Selegua
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 14 administrative regions : Chiantla, Colotenango, Cuilco, Huehuetenango, La Democracia +9
Sub-basin area
921,6km²
Upstream area
922km²
Discharge
21,09m³/s
Mean elev.
2 067m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
14 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San Ildefonso IxtahuacánHuehuetenango · Guatemala122.3 km²13.3% of basin
- Santa BárbaraHuehuetenango · Guatemala106.4 km²11.6% of basin
- La DemocraciaHuehuetenango · Guatemala101.9 km²11.1% of basin
- MalacatancitoHuehuetenango · Guatemala96.4 km²10.5% of basin
- San Sebastián HuehuetenangoHuehuetenango · Guatemala92.3 km²10.1% of basin
- 64.2 km²7.0% of basin
- HuehuetenangoHuehuetenango · Guatemala63.5 km²6.9% of basin
- La LibertadHuehuetenango · Guatemala62.9 km²6.8% of basin
6 moreFull L2 list
- Cuilco61.5 km² · 6.7%
- Colotenango53.5 km² · 5.8%
- San Rafael Petzal36.8 km² · 4.0%
- San Juan Atitán30.0 km² · 3.3%
- San Gaspar Ixchil15.5 km² · 1.7%
- San Pedro Necta11.2 km² · 1.2%
4 intersecting protected areas
Regional Municipal Park
1.67 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
1.33 km² overlap
Los Regadillos
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.30 km² overlap
La Montañita
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 461 distinct species · 19 989 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Selegua : 22 espèces reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
1 439mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
910mm/an
PET
1 450mm
AET
1 002mm
Mean slope
17,6°
Water table
528cm
Forest
60%
Crops
31%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)