HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871710
Bassin de Río Plátanos
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 38 administrative regions : Chinautla, Chuarrancho, Fraijanes, Jalapa, Mataquescuintla +33
Sub-basin area
1 486,5km²
Upstream area
1 486,5km²
Discharge
27,75m³/s
Mean elev.
1 456m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
38 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 235.8 km²15.9% of basin
- MataquescuintlaJalapa · Guatemala173.6 km²11.7% of basin
- 126.5 km²8.5% of basin
- 123.5 km²8.3% of basin
- 119.1 km²8.0% of basin
- 114.2 km²7.7% of basin
- 71.4 km²4.8% of basin
- 61.2 km²4.1% of basin
30 moreFull L2 list
- Chinautla55.6 km² · 3.8%
- Mixco51.4 km² · 3.5%
- San Raymundo48.2 km² · 3.3%
- ZONA 1843.6 km² · 2.9%
- ZONA 2536.2 km² · 2.4%
- San Pedro Sacatepéquez30.8 km² · 2.1%
- Santa Catarina Pinula30.5 km² · 2.1%
- San Juan Sacatepéquez25.1 km² · 1.7%
- Chuarrancho22.5 km² · 1.5%
- ZONA 2418.3 km² · 1.2%
- ZONA 1717.5 km² · 1.2%
- ZONA 712.9 km² · 0.9%
- ZONA 28.7 km² · 0.6%
- ZONA 168.7 km² · 0.6%
- ZONA 66.8 km² · 0.5%
- ZONA 156.6 km² · 0.4%
- ZONA 16.1 km² · 0.4%
- Fraijanes5.4 km² · 0.4%
- ZONA 55.4 km² · 0.4%
- ZONA 33.8 km² · 0.3%
- Sansare3.4 km² · 0.2%
- ZONA 103.2 km² · 0.2%
- ZONA 91.5 km² · 0.1%
- ZONA 81.4 km² · 0.1%
- ZONA 191.0 km² · 0.1%
- ZONA 41.0 km² · 0.1%
- ZONA 130.1 km² · 0.0%
- Santa Rosa de Lima0.0 km² · 0.0%
- ZONA 120.0 km² · 0.0%
- San Rafaél Las Flores0.0 km² · 0.0%
6 intersecting protected areas
Cordillera Alux
IUCN IIIWatershed Protection Reserve
8.80 km² overlap
Corral Viejo
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
1.60 km² overlap
Las Vegas
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.34 km² overlap
Finca El Socorro
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
Cascadas de Tatasirire
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
La Barranca
IUCN VPrivate Natural Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 343 distinct species · 249 502 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Plátanos : 17 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
1 295mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
675mm/an
PET
1 448mm
AET
901mm
Mean slope
12,5°
Water table
387cm
Forest
4%
Crops
51%
Urban
29%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)