HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872960
Bassin de Río Umbra
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
380km²
Upstream area
380km²
Discharge
15,8m³/s
Mean elev.
207m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 378.5 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Bosawas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
378.60 km² overlap
Bosawas
IUCN IVNature Reserve
343.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
157 distinct species · 220 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 Umbra : 6 espèces reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 21.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
2 121mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 303mm/an
PET
1 545mm
AET
1 351mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
175cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)