HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871140
Bassin de Río Otoro
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 10 administrative regions : Arada, Atima, Ceguaca, Gualala, La Unión +5
Sub-basin area
367,2km²
Upstream area
3 882,8km²
Discharge
79,61m³/s
Mean elev.
782m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Palaja404 km²
- Bassin de Río Otoro243 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Santa BárbaraSanta Bárbara · Honduras162.5 km²44.4% of basin
- San NicolásSanta Bárbara · Honduras80.4 km²22.0% of basin
- 41.5 km²11.3% of basin
- San Vicente CentenarioSanta Bárbara · Honduras32.8 km²9.0% of basin
- Nuevo CelilacSanta Bárbara · Honduras26.6 km²7.3% of basin
- 12.5 km²3.4% of basin
- 8.1 km²2.2% of basin
- San José de ColinasSanta Bárbara · Honduras1.4 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Santa Bárbara
IUCN IINational Park
47.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
561 distinct species · 3 773 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Otoro : 20 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 737mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
708mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 247mm
Mean slope
13,5°
Water table
445cm
Forest
54%
Crops
15%
Urban
3%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)