HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868530
Bassin de Río Motagua
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Florida, Los Amates, Morales, Nueva Frontera
Sub-basin area
781,1km²
Upstream area
14 467km²
Discharge
271,49m³/s
Mean elev.
358m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Motagua406 km²
- Bassin de Río Motagua387 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 464.2 km²59.6% of basin
- 176.3 km²22.6% of basin
- 97.7 km²12.6% of basin
- Nueva FronteraSanta Bárbara · Honduras40.2 km²5.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Caral
IUCN IIIWater and Forest Reserve
18.08 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
4.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 092 distinct species · 10 268 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Motagua : 16 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 966mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
808mm/an
PET
1 584mm
AET
1 341mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
229cm
Forest
78%
Crops
10%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)