HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871300
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 13 administrative regions : El Jícaro, Guastatoya, Jalapa, Morazán, Salamá +8
Sub-basin area
1 860,5km²
Upstream area
6 337,7km²
Discharge
114,67m³/s
Mean elev.
982m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Plátanos1487 km²
- Bassin de Río Motagua495 km²
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 312.9 km²16.9% of basin
- 293.0 km²15.8% of basin
- 216.1 km²11.7% of basin
- 208.4 km²11.2% of basin
- 194.0 km²10.5% of basin
- 164.6 km²8.9% of basin
- 137.5 km²7.4% of basin
- 113.0 km²6.1% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- El Jícaro108.0 km² · 5.8%
- San Jerónimo55.9 km² · 3.0%
- San Pedro Pinula49.2 km² · 2.7%
- Usumatlán1.0 km² · 0.1%
- San Miguel Chicaj0.2 km² · 0.0%
20 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de las Minas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
137.53 km² overlap
Hacienda Los Jose Luises
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
6.35 km² overlap
Volcán Jumay
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
4.01 km² overlap
Luisiana
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
2.35 km² overlap
Volcán Tobón
IUCN IbPermanent closure zone
2.32 km² overlap
Cerro de Jesús
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.90 km² overlap
Los Alpes
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.73 km² overlap
Monte Alto
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.64 km² overlap
Llano de la Negra
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.62 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Finca Fernando Paiz
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.62 km² overlap
El Risco
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.56 km² overlap
Private Natural Reserve
0.43 km² overlap
Lo de China
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.39 km² overlap
Las Nubes
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.38 km² overlap
El Roble
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
Regional Municipal Park
0.21 km² overlap
La Joya
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Montaña Larga
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Cumbre Laguna Seca
IUCN IVRegional Municipal Park
0.05 km² overlap
Finca Rincón Grande
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 942 distinct species · 38 585 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 155mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
717mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
833mm
Mean slope
14,2°
Water table
456cm
Forest
12%
Crops
44%
Urban
5%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)