HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872590
Bassin de Río Coco
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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Catacamas, Dulce Nombre de Culmí, El Cuá, Puerto Lempira, Wampusirpi +1
Sub-basin area
1 040,3km²
Upstream area
17 472,2km²
Discharge
359,99m³/s
Mean elev.
205m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Lakus805 km²
- Bassin de Río Coco718 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 366.2 km²35.3% of basin
- 289.6 km²27.9% of basin
- 175.3 km²16.9% of basin
- 107.2 km²10.3% of basin
- 98.2 km²9.5% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Tawahka Asagni
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
558.39 km² overlap
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
306.47 km² overlap
Bosawas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
199.72 km² overlap
Patuca
IUCN VINational Park
10.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
280 distinct species · 722 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Coco : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.0%, 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
2 200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 149mm/an
PET
1 551mm
AET
1 362mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
207cm
Forest
95%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)