HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080876560
Bassin de Río Torola
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 42 administrative regions across 2 countries : Arambala, Cabañas, Cacaopera, Camasca, Carolina +36
Sub-basin area
1 475,2km²
Upstream area
1 475,2km²
Discharge
26,03m³/s
Mean elev.
748m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
42 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 154.0 km²10.5% of basin
- 146.4 km²10.0% of basin
- 119.8 km²8.2% of basin
- ColomoncaguaIntibucá · Honduras113.7 km²7.7% of basin
- 74.4 km²5.1% of basin
- 72.3 km²4.9% of basin
- 59.3 km²4.0% of basin
- 52.4 km²3.6% of basin
34 moreFull L2 list
- San Gerardo51.0 km² · 3.5%
- Carolina43.8 km² · 3.0%
- Perquín43.7 km² · 3.0%
- Nuevo Edén de San Juan40.1 km² · 2.7%
- Santa Lucía40.0 km² · 2.7%
- Magdalena37.0 km² · 2.5%
- San Simón36.3 km² · 2.5%
- Jocoaitique35.4 km² · 2.4%
- Arambala35.3 km² · 2.4%
- San Luis de la Reina35.1 km² · 2.4%
- Osicala32.1 km² · 2.2%
- Marcala30.4 km² · 2.1%
- San Antonio27.6 km² · 1.9%
- Gualococti26.8 km² · 1.8%
- Torola22.5 km² · 1.5%
- El Rosario21.8 km² · 1.5%
- San Antonio21.1 km² · 1.4%
- Sociedad17.3 km² · 1.2%
- Camasca16.8 km² · 1.1%
- San Isidro14.5 km² · 1.0%
- Delicias de Concepción8.7 km² · 0.6%
- Ciudad Barrios8.0 km² · 0.5%
- Polorós7.3 km² · 0.5%
- Lislique6.2 km² · 0.4%
- San Fernando5.8 km² · 0.4%
- Nueva Esparta4.6 km² · 0.3%
- Yarula4.2 km² · 0.3%
- Lolotiquillo3.6 km² · 0.2%
- Concepción0.4 km² · 0.0%
- Yamabal0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Santa Elena0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Chilanga0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Yoloaiquín0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Dolores0.0 km² · 0.0%
3 intersecting protected areas
El Jilguero
IUCN VIWater Production Reserve
77.24 km² overlap
Sabanetas
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
28.50 km² overlap
La Ermita
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Protected Area
1.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 387 distinct species · 21 513 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Torola : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 6 bulles famille, 26 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 6 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
1 932mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
569mm/an
PET
1 713mm
AET
1 146mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
469cm
Forest
37%
Crops
43%
Urban
2%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)