HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871800
Bassin de Río Grande del Agua Caliente
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 17 administrative regions : Cedros, Comayagua, Distrito Central, El Porvenir, Esquías +12
Sub-basin area
2 671,8km²
Upstream area
2 671,8km²
Discharge
38m³/s
Mean elev.
929m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
17 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 761.9 km²28.6% of basin
- El Porvenir398.1 km²15.0% of basin
- 365.2 km²13.7% of basin
- 321.6 km²12.1% of basin
- 206.8 km²7.8% of basin
- 140.2 km²5.3% of basin
- San LuisComayagua · Honduras94.1 km²3.5% of basin
- San José del PotreroComayagua · Honduras91.3 km²3.4% of basin
9 moreFull L2 list
- Guaimaca83.6 km² · 3.1%
- Minas de Oro62.0 km² · 2.3%
- Comayagua51.8 km² · 1.9%
- San Jerónimo40.1 km² · 1.5%
- San Juan de Flores22.4 km² · 0.8%
- La Libertad7.4 km² · 0.3%
- Orica7.0 km² · 0.3%
- Marale4.8 km² · 0.2%
- Distrito Central3.9 km² · 0.1%
3 intersecting protected areas
Montaña de Comayagua
IUCN IINational Park
133.03 km² overlap
Corralitos
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
29.21 km² overlap
Los Hevideros
IUCN Not ReportedPrivate Nature Reserve
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
860 distinct species · 6 626 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Grande del Agua Caliente : 30 espèces reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, 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°
21,9°C
Annual rain
1 383mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
455mm/an
PET
1 611mm
AET
1 097mm
Mean slope
9,4°
Water table
349cm
Forest
42%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)