HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871970
Bassin de Río Palaja
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 : Arada, Atima, El Nispero, Gracias, La Iguala +8
Sub-basin area
404km²
Upstream area
404km²
Discharge
8,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 083m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.2 km²23.7% of basin
- 88.5 km²22.0% of basin
- 77.0 km²19.1% of basin
- El NisperoSanta Bárbara · Honduras62.4 km²15.5% of basin
- 62.2 km²15.5% of basin
- 7.7 km²1.9% of basin
- 4.4 km²1.1% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.5% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- San Nicolás1.4 km² · 0.3%
- Santa Rita1.4 km² · 0.3%
- San Francisco de Ojuera0.2 km² · 0.0%
- San Vicente Centenario0.1 km² · 0.0%
- San Francisco de Opalaca0.0 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Montaña Verde
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
24.66 km² overlap
Puca
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
13.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
312 distinct species · 1 081 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Palaja : 22 espèces reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 495mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
696mm/an
PET
1 595mm
AET
1 143mm
Mean slope
15,0°
Water table
462cm
Forest
44%
Crops
14%
Urban
1%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)