HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080869510
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 : Copán Ruinas, El Paraíso, Gualán, Los Amates
Sub-basin area
406km²
Upstream area
13 298,3km²
Discharge
254,54m³/s
Mean elev.
403m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Motagua366 km²
- Bassin de QUEBRADA323 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 324.6 km²80.2% of basin
- 45.7 km²11.3% of basin
- 33.7 km²8.3% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de las Minas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
35.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
272 distinct species · 430 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 34 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.8%, 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
1 819mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
741mm/an
PET
1 607mm
AET
1 287mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
318cm
Forest
44%
Crops
21%
Urban
5%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)