HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871730
Bassin de Río Copán
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 8 administrative regions : Cabañas, Concepción, Copán Ruinas, El Paraíso, La Unión +3
Sub-basin area
308,2km²
Upstream area
308,3km²
Discharge
6,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 036m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 246.7 km²80.3% of basin
- 22.5 km²7.3% of basin
- 20.2 km²6.6% of basin
- 9.6 km²3.1% of basin
- 5.5 km²1.8% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Trifinio Fraternidad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
24.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
539 distinct species · 9 775 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Copán : 14 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 511mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
662mm/an
PET
1 554mm
AET
1 133mm
Mean slope
13,1°
Water table
431cm
Forest
55%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)