HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872160
Bassin de Río El Playón
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 14 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cabañas, Camotán, Concepción, Copán Ruinas, Dolores Merendon +9
Sub-basin area
566,3km²
Upstream area
566,3km²
Discharge
11m³/s
Mean elev.
1 041m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
14 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- EsquipulasChiquimula · Guatemala254.2 km²45.0% of basin
- San FernandoOcotepeque · Honduras74.5 km²13.2% of basin
- 46.6 km²8.3% of basin
- 41.7 km²7.4% of basin
- 40.8 km²7.2% of basin
- 34.8 km²6.2% of basin
- La EncarnaciónOcotepeque · Honduras30.4 km²5.4% of basin
- 26.6 km²4.7% of basin
6 moreFull L2 list
- La Unión4.7 km² · 0.8%
- Lucerna2.6 km² · 0.5%
- Dolores Merendon2.5 km² · 0.4%
- Fraternidad2.3 km² · 0.4%
- Camotán2.2 km² · 0.4%
- Concepción0.4 km² · 0.1%
2 intersecting protected areas
Erapuca
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
23.85 km² overlap
Trifinio Fraternidad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
244 distinct species · 1 287 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 El Playón : 22 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
618mm/an
PET
1 537mm
AET
1 062mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
459cm
Forest
8%
Crops
47%
Urban
6%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)