HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080875960
Bassin de Río María Linda
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 5 administrative regions : Escuintla, Guanagazapa, Iztapa, Masagua, Taxisco
Sub-basin area
176,9km²
Upstream area
2 014,2km²
Discharge
68,91m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río María Linda840 km²
- Bassin de Rio Maria Linda76 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GuanagazapaEscuintla · Guatemala87.7 km²49.7% of basin
- 38.3 km²21.7% of basin
- 38.2 km²21.7% of basin
- 12.1 km²6.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
293 distinct species · 1 943 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 María Linda : 38 espèces reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 977mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
1 106mm/an
PET
1 736mm
AET
1 140mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
10cm
Forest
62%
Crops
27%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)