HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872890
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Puerto Lempira, Waspán
Sub-basin area
91,4km²
Upstream area
17 763,9km²
Discharge
372,71m³/s
Mean elev.
99m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Coco1040 km²
- Bassin de Río Nauawás200 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 51.0 km²56.0% of basin
- 40.1 km²44.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
44.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,8°C
Annual rain
2 138mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 410mm/an
PET
1 518mm
AET
1 344mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
43cm
Forest
58%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)