HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868610
Bassin de Río Polochic
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 2 administrative regions : ?, El Estor
Sub-basin area
432,3km²
Upstream area
5 432km²
Discharge
235,98m³/s
Mean elev.
88m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Polochic2528 km²
- Bassin de Río Cahabón207 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 380.3 km²88.3% of basin
- 50.5 km²11.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bocas del Polochic
IUCN IIIWildlife Refuge
105.55 km² overlap
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Bocas del Polochic
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
93.03 km² overlap
Sierra de las Minas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
32.86 km² overlap
Chabiland Esquina
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
570 distinct species · 2 784 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Polochic : 31 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
2 583mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 092mm/an
PET
1 631mm
AET
1 429mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
114cm
Forest
65%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)