HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080875840
Bassin de Río Mocal
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 20 administrative regions across 2 countries : Arcatao, Belén Gualcho, Candelaria, Cololaca, Erandique +15
Sub-basin area
1 187,2km²
Upstream area
1 187,2km²
Discharge
25,09m³/s
Mean elev.
1 211m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
20 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 235.9 km²19.9% of basin
- 217.3 km²18.4% of basin
- 123.9 km²10.5% of basin
- Belén GualchoOcotepeque · Honduras108.6 km²9.2% of basin
- 94.7 km²8.0% of basin
- 76.0 km²6.4% of basin
- 69.3 km²5.9% of basin
- 58.2 km²4.9% of basin
12 moreFull L2 list
- Valladolid57.5 km² · 4.9%
- Tomalá42.8 km² · 3.6%
- Tambla42.1 km² · 3.6%
- Erandique23.3 km² · 2.0%
- Gracias15.6 km² · 1.3%
- Mapulaca7.9 km² · 0.7%
- San Marcos4.2 km² · 0.4%
- Guarita2.9 km² · 0.2%
- Arcatao1.8 km² · 0.1%
- Cololaca0.4 km² · 0.0%
- La Campa0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Candelaria0.0 km² · 0.0%
4 intersecting protected areas
Celaque
IUCN IINational Park
95.74 km² overlap
National Park
57.30 km² overlap
Volcán Pacayita
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
52.95 km² overlap
Cacique Lempira, Señor de las Montañas
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
34.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 029 distinct species · 11 250 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Mocal : 21 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 18 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe 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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
1 834mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
671mm/an
PET
1 557mm
AET
1 131mm
Mean slope
15,6°
Water table
551cm
Forest
28%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)