HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872150
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Camotán, Copán Ruinas, Esquipulas, La Unión, Santa Rita
Sub-basin area
168,3km²
Upstream area
607,5km²
Discharge
12,41m³/s
Mean elev.
867m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Copán308 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada131 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 113.3 km²67.6% of basin
- 33.0 km²19.7% of basin
- 17.9 km²10.7% of basin
- 2.6 km²1.5% of basin
- EsquipulasChiquimula · Guatemala1.0 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Trifinio Fraternidad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
18.05 km² overlap
Ruinas de Copán
IUCN IIICultural Monument
0.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 354 distinct species · 57 977 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 474mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
644mm/an
PET
1 571mm
AET
1 115mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
447cm
Forest
2%
Crops
46%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)