HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080876540
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Dolores, Piraera, San Antonio, Sensuntepeque
Sub-basin area
118,1km²
Upstream area
14 042,5km²
Discharge
307,2m³/s
Mean elev.
287m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Guarajambala2423 km²
- Bassin de Río Lempa326 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.1 km²63.9% of basin
- San AntonioIntibucá · Honduras31.7 km²26.9% of basin
- 8.8 km²7.5% of basin
- 2.0 km²1.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 913mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
706mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
1 205mm
Mean slope
12,3°
Water table
451cm
Forest
29%
Crops
49%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)