HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080869450
Bassin de Río Chixoy
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 6 administrative regions : Cunén, Sacapulas, San Andrés Sajcabajá, San Juan Cotzal, San Pedro Jocopilas +1
Sub-basin area
312,6km²
Upstream area
2 410km²
Discharge
62,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 759m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Blanco524 km²
- Bassin de Río Chixoy190 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 155.3 km²49.8% of basin
- 64.3 km²20.7% of basin
- 62.4 km²20.0% of basin
- 27.0 km²8.7% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
372 distinct species · 2 567 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Chixoy : 24 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
1 728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
1 208mm/an
PET
1 472mm
AET
1 131mm
Mean slope
18,0°
Water table
600cm
Forest
63%
Crops
19%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)