HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080875770
Bassin de Río Sucio
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 21 administrative regions : Armenia, Ciudad Arce, Coatepeque, Colón, El Congo +16
Sub-basin area
851,4km²
Upstream area
851,5km²
Discharge
28,82m³/s
Mean elev.
633m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
21 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- OpicoLa Libertad · El Salvador143.6 km²16.9% of basin
- QuezaltepequeLa Libertad · El Salvador115.4 km²13.6% of basin
- Ciudad ArceLa Libertad · El Salvador84.3 km²9.9% of basin
- ColónLa Libertad · El Salvador68.2 km²8.0% of basin
- El CongoSanta Ana · El Salvador67.9 km²8.0% of basin
- ArmeniaSonsonate · El Salvador58.9 km²6.9% of basin
- CoatepequeSanta Ana · El Salvador42.4 km²5.0% of basin
- San MatíasLa Libertad · El Salvador36.6 km²4.3% of basin
13 moreFull L2 list
- San Pablo Tacachico34.0 km² · 4.0%
- Nueva San Salvador29.8 km² · 3.5%
- El Paisnal29.8 km² · 3.5%
- Tepecoyo29.5 km² · 3.5%
- Talnique29.3 km² · 3.5%
- Jayaque27.5 km² · 3.2%
- Izalco21.7 km² · 2.6%
- Sacacoyo21.2 km² · 2.5%
- Santa Ana5.5 km² · 0.6%
- Nejapa1.9 km² · 0.2%
- Tamanique0.7 km² · 0.1%
- Nueva Concepción0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Lago de Coatepeque0.0 km² · 0.0%
13 intersecting protected areas
Apaneca-Ilamatepec
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
67.44 km² overlap
Chanmico
IUCN VTerrestrial Protected Landscape
4.59 km² overlap
San Isidro
IUCN IIINatural Monument
2.34 km² overlap
Los Abriles
IUCN VTerrestrial Protected Landscape
2.32 km² overlap
National Park
1.99 km² overlap
San Andrés
IUCN Not ReportedProtection and Restoration Area
1.58 km² overlap
Colombia
IUCN VTerrestrial Protected Landscape
1.39 km² overlap
San Eugenio y La Concordia
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Protected Area
1.35 km² overlap
San Lorenzo
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Protected Area
1.05 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Los Volcanes
IUCN IINational Park
0.89 km² overlap
San Francisco Dos Cerros
IUCN Not ReportedTerrestrial Protected Landscape
0.66 km² overlap
Catorce de Marzo
IUCN VTerrestrial Protected Landscape
0.43 km² overlap
La Isla
IUCN VTerrestrial Protected Landscape
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 401 distinct species · 74 701 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 Sucio : 25 espèces + 5 bulles famille, 26 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 5 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 836mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
944mm/an
PET
1 757mm
AET
1 133mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
244cm
Forest
64%
Crops
35%
Urban
25%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)