HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868590
Bassin de Río Cuilco
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Amatenango de la Frontera, Cuilco, San José Ojetenam, Tacaná, Tectitán
Sub-basin area
298km²
Upstream area
2 080,6km²
Discharge
41,27m³/s
Mean elev.
1 806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cuilco1075 km²
- Bassin de Río Cuilco231 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 192.9 km²65.0% of basin
- 51.9 km²17.5% of basin
- 49.4 km²16.6% of basin
- San José OjetenamSan Marcos · Guatemala2.2 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bosque la Avanzada
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
112 distinct species · 217 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Cuilco : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
1 731mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
823mm/an
PET
1 546mm
AET
1 108mm
Mean slope
22,6°
Water table
711cm
Forest
79%
Crops
25%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)