HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868210
Bassin de Río Sauce
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 3 administrative regions : ?, El Estor, Los Amates
Sub-basin area
493,2km²
Upstream area
6 353,5km²
Discharge
267,43m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Polochic432 km²
- Bassin de Río Las Cañas429 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 288.7 km²58.7% of basin
- 115.4 km²23.5% of basin
- 87.3 km²17.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Bocas del Polochic
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
51.45 km² overlap
Bocas del Polochic
IUCN IIIWildlife Refuge
49.39 km² overlap
Sierra de las Minas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
30.25 km² overlap
Finca Setal
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
6.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 286 distinct species · 8 343 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 Río Sauce : 30 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 709mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 039mm/an
PET
1 566mm
AET
1 418mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
130cm
Forest
25%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)