HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080870270
Bassin · #7080870270
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 : Gualaco, Sabá, San Esteban, Tocoa
Sub-basin area
264,7km²
Upstream area
264,7km²
Discharge
5,38m³/s
Mean elev.
950m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 203.1 km²77.0% of basin
- 56.5 km²21.4% of basin
- 3.3 km²1.3% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Park
61.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 12 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 466mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
641mm/an
PET
1 518mm
AET
1 147mm
Mean slope
12,3°
Water table
382cm
Forest
42%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)