HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872570
Bassin de Río Higuito
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 27 administrative regions : Belén Gualcho, Cabañas, Cololaca, Concepción, Corquín +22
Sub-basin area
1 762km²
Upstream area
1 762km²
Discharge
37,29m³/s
Mean elev.
1 202m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
27 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 222.4 km²12.7% of basin
- 176.0 km²10.0% of basin
- 137.3 km²7.8% of basin
- 135.2 km²7.7% of basin
- San MarcosOcotepeque · Honduras130.5 km²7.4% of basin
- 117.8 km²6.7% of basin
- 116.7 km²6.6% of basin
- 107.6 km²6.1% of basin
19 moreFull L2 list
- San Francisco del Valle96.4 km² · 5.5%
- Fraternidad83.1 km² · 4.7%
- Talgua72.7 km² · 4.1%
- San Pedro61.7 km² · 3.5%
- San Agustín61.5 km² · 3.5%
- Belén Gualcho50.8 km² · 2.9%
- Gracias50.5 km² · 2.9%
- Concepción36.3 km² · 2.1%
- Las Flores21.8 km² · 1.2%
- Dulce Nombre20.3 km² · 1.2%
- Cololaca14.2 km² · 0.8%
- Santa Rita12.3 km² · 0.7%
- Dolores6.9 km² · 0.4%
- La Encarnación6.5 km² · 0.4%
- San Jorge6.1 km² · 0.3%
- Dolores Merendon5.1 km² · 0.3%
- Sinuapa4.9 km² · 0.3%
- Veracruz0.9 km² · 0.1%
- Cabañas0.1 km² · 0.0%
7 intersecting protected areas
Celaque
IUCN IINational Park
84.02 km² overlap
Cacique Lempira, Señor de las Montañas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
61.41 km² overlap
Güisayote
IUCN VIBiological Reserve
56.65 km² overlap
Erapuca
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
41.35 km² overlap
Trifinio Fraternidad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
38.65 km² overlap
Volcán Pacayita
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
35.27 km² overlap
Cruz de los Ocotes
IUCN Not ReportedPrivate Nature Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 756 distinct species · 43 479 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Higuito : 21 espèces reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 483mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
661mm/an
PET
1 541mm
AET
1 080mm
Mean slope
11,9°
Water table
406cm
Forest
11%
Crops
37%
Urban
3%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)