HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080875600
Bassin de Rio Acelhuate
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 23 administrative regions : Aguilares, Antiguo Cuscatlán, Apopa, Ayutuxtepeque, Cuscatancingo +18
Sub-basin area
714,4km²
Upstream area
714,5km²
Discharge
22,46m³/s
Mean elev.
589m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
23 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.1 km²17.9% of basin
- NejapaSan Salvador · El Salvador85.8 km²12.0% of basin
- San SalvadorSan Salvador · El Salvador63.6 km²8.9% of basin
- TonacatepequeSan Salvador · El Salvador62.9 km²8.8% of basin
- GuazapaSan Salvador · El Salvador61.9 km²8.7% of basin
- ApopaSan Salvador · El Salvador61.8 km²8.7% of basin
- 50.0 km²7.0% of basin
- DelgadoSan Salvador · El Salvador31.2 km²4.4% of basin
15 moreFull L2 list
- Aguilares26.9 km² · 3.8%
- El Paisnal22.3 km² · 3.1%
- Soyapango21.7 km² · 3.0%
- Nueva San Salvador21.0 km² · 2.9%
- Mejicanos16.9 km² · 2.4%
- Antiguo Cuscatlán16.7 km² · 2.4%
- Quezaltepeque11.5 km² · 1.6%
- Cuscatancingo7.5 km² · 1.0%
- Ayutuxtepeque7.2 km² · 1.0%
- San Marcos5.7 km² · 0.8%
- Oratorio de Concepción4.3 km² · 0.6%
- San Martín2.7 km² · 0.4%
- Ilopango2.5 km² · 0.4%
- Embalse Cerron Grande0.5 km² · 0.1%
- Nuevo Cuscatlán0.0 km² · 0.0%
5 intersecting protected areas
Embalse Cerrón Grande
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
84.65 km² overlap
Colima
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Area with Managed Resources
4.20 km² overlap
Los Pericos
IUCN Not ReportedEcological Park
0.63 km² overlap
Chantecuan
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Protected Area
0.33 km² overlap
National Park
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 231 distinct species · 309 193 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Rio Acelhuate : 22 espèces + 3 bulles famille, 17 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 3 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 903mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
915mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
1 149mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
220cm
Forest
34%
Crops
51%
Urban
42%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)