HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080876070
Bassin de Río Lempa
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 8 administrative regions across 2 countries : Candelaria, Gualcince, Mapulaca, Piraera, San Andrés +3
Sub-basin area
326,2km²
Upstream area
11 501,7km²
Discharge
259,22m³/s
Mean elev.
592m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mocal1187 km²
- Bassin de Río Lempa393 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 76.7 km²23.6% of basin
- 69.5 km²21.4% of basin
- 52.3 km²16.1% of basin
- 41.3 km²12.7% of basin
- 35.5 km²10.9% of basin
- 27.1 km²8.3% of basin
- 20.5 km²6.3% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Park
9.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
299 distinct species · 3 246 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 Lempa : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 3 bulles famille, 22 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 5.1%, 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 996mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
692mm/an
PET
1 755mm
AET
1 195mm
Mean slope
14,0°
Water table
501cm
Forest
13%
Crops
57%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)