HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868090
Bassin de Río Cahabón
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 12 administrative regions : Cobán, Lanquín, Purulhá, San Cristóbal Verapaz, San Juan Chamelco +7
Sub-basin area
1 997,3km²
Upstream area
1 997,8km²
Discharge
94,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 561.2 km²28.2% of basin
- 333.1 km²16.7% of basin
- 294.4 km²14.8% of basin
- 186.5 km²9.4% of basin
- 177.9 km²8.9% of basin
- 165.2 km²8.3% of basin
- 114.6 km²5.8% of basin
- 76.1 km²3.8% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- Santa Cruz Verapaz59.4 km² · 3.0%
- Purulhá19.4 km² · 1.0%
- Tamahú2.4 km² · 0.1%
- Tucurú0.2 km² · 0.0%
11 intersecting protected areas
Semuc Champey
IUCN IINatural Monument
18.40 km² overlap
K'antí Shul
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
13.63 km² overlap
Chinajux y Sechinaux
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
5.36 km² overlap
Chelemha
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.58 km² overlap
Las Victorias
IUCN IINational Park
0.81 km² overlap
Chicacnab
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.46 km² overlap
El Anexo del Capuccino
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Santa Isabel
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Xucaneb
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Grutas de Lanquín
IUCN IINational Park
0.02 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 768 distinct species · 552 723 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Cahabón : 19 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
2 909mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
1 390mm/an
PET
1 359mm
AET
1 291mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
426cm
Forest
30%
Crops
12%
Urban
6%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)