HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080870860
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 15 administrative regions : Cabañas, Chiquimula, El Estor, El Jícaro, Estanzuela +10
Sub-basin area
1 034,2km²
Upstream area
7 970,1km²
Discharge
134,49m³/s
Mean elev.
1 067m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Motagua1861 km²
- Bassin de Río Jalapa598 km²
15 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 244.8 km²23.8% of basin
- 215.7 km²20.9% of basin
- 106.9 km²10.4% of basin
- 103.6 km²10.1% of basin
- 101.6 km²9.9% of basin
- 91.9 km²8.9% of basin
- 76.6 km²7.4% of basin
- ChiquimulaChiquimula · Guatemala32.7 km²3.2% of basin
7 moreFull L2 list
- Estanzuela24.6 km² · 2.4%
- San Pedro Pinula17.8 km² · 1.7%
- Panzós7.9 km² · 0.8%
- Salamá5.5 km² · 0.5%
- San Luis Jilotepeque0.5 km² · 0.0%
- El Jícaro0.3 km² · 0.0%
- El Estor0.2 km² · 0.0%
7 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de las Minas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
389.96 km² overlap
Santa Rosalía
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
40.31 km² overlap
Montaña Larga
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
4.84 km² overlap
El Bosque
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
4.48 km² overlap
Las Flores
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.45 km² overlap
El Roblar
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Niño Dormido
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 572 distinct species · 22 842 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
808mm/an
PET
1 507mm
AET
958mm
Mean slope
15,9°
Water table
457cm
Forest
9%
Crops
34%
Urban
6%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)