HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080869530
Bassin de Río Pacaranat
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 13 administrative regions : Malacatancito, Momostenango, Patzité, Sacapulas, San Antonio Ilotenango +8
Sub-basin area
944,5km²
Upstream area
944,6km²
Discharge
29,94m³/s
Mean elev.
2 125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MomostenangoTotonicapán · Guatemala280.9 km²29.9% of basin
- Santa María ChiquimulaTotonicapán · Guatemala226.6 km²24.1% of basin
- 145.5 km²15.5% of basin
- 108.9 km²11.6% of basin
- Santa Lucía La ReformaTotonicapán · Guatemala49.2 km²5.2% of basin
- TotonicapánTotonicapán · Guatemala43.8 km²4.7% of basin
- 25.1 km²2.7% of basin
- San BartoloTotonicapán · Guatemala22.8 km²2.4% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- Santa Cruz del Quiché16.6 km² · 1.8%
- Sacapulas14.2 km² · 1.5%
- San Carlos Sija3.7 km² · 0.4%
- Malacatancito2.6 km² · 0.3%
- San Francisco El Alto1.1 km² · 0.1%
2 intersecting protected areas
Regional Municipal Park
51.46 km² overlap
Riscos de Momostenango
IUCN IINational Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
536 distinct species · 2 807 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Pacaranat : 33 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
15,9°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
1 147mm/an
PET
1 386mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
265cm
Forest
89%
Crops
10%
Urban
18%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)