HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080869550
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 7 administrative regions across 2 countries : Copán Ruinas, El Paraíso, Florida, Los Amates, San Antonio +2
Sub-basin area
387km²
Upstream area
387,4km²
Discharge
8,5m³/s
Mean elev.
734m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 211.6 km²54.9% of basin
- 110.5 km²28.7% of basin
- 28.3 km²7.3% of basin
- 26.7 km²6.9% of basin
- 6.5 km²1.7% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cerro Azul
IUCN IINational Park
92.68 km² overlap
Trifinio Fraternidad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
14.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
523 distinct species · 1 430 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
1 680mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
701mm/an
PET
1 583mm
AET
1 223mm
Mean slope
13,5°
Water table
374cm
Forest
48%
Crops
12%
Urban
1%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)