HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872000
Bassin de Río Otoro
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 9 administrative regions : Arada, Ceguaca, Concepción del Sur, El Nispero, Las Vegas +4
Sub-basin area
242,5km²
Upstream area
3 111,8km²
Discharge
62,42m³/s
Mean elev.
673m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Gualcarque684 km²
- Bassin de Río Zacapa183 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Santa RitaSanta Bárbara · Honduras55.1 km²22.8% of basin
- 53.0 km²21.9% of basin
- Concepción del SurSanta Bárbara · Honduras51.8 km²21.5% of basin
- Santa BárbaraSanta Bárbara · Honduras34.7 km²14.3% of basin
- El NisperoSanta Bárbara · Honduras16.5 km²6.8% of basin
- 12.2 km²5.1% of basin
- San Francisco de OjueraSanta Bárbara · Honduras10.0 km²4.1% of basin
- San Pedro ZacapaSanta Bárbara · Honduras4.3 km²1.8% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Arada3.9 km² · 1.6%
3 intersecting protected areas
Santa Bárbara
IUCN IINational Park
12.78 km² overlap
Lago de Yojoa
IUCN VIMultiple Use Area
0.09 km² overlap
Cuenca del Lago de Yojoa
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
282 distinct species · 852 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Otoro : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 811mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
724mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
1 269mm
Mean slope
13,2°
Water table
389cm
Forest
42%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)