HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080877320
Bassin de Rio Goascorán
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 16 administrative regions across 2 countries : Aguaqueterique, Aramecina, Caridad, Concepción de Oriente, Curarén +11
Sub-basin area
798,6km²
Upstream area
1 449,2km²
Discharge
16,86m³/s
Mean elev.
508m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Palagua421 km²
- Bassin de Río Rancho Grande230 km²
16 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- AguaqueteriqueLa Paz · Honduras132.2 km²16.6% of basin
- PolorósLa Unión · El Salvador92.5 km²11.6% of basin
- 90.1 km²11.3% of basin
- 78.3 km²9.8% of basin
- Concepción de OrienteLa Unión · El Salvador66.9 km²8.4% of basin
- San Antonio del NorteLa Paz · Honduras65.8 km²8.3% of basin
- 46.2 km²5.8% of basin
- 38.8 km²4.9% of basin
8 moreFull L2 list
- San Juan37.2 km² · 4.7%
- Lauterique33.5 km² · 4.2%
- El Sauce30.8 km² · 3.9%
- Mercedes de Oriente25.5 km² · 3.2%
- Lepaterique24.5 km² · 3.1%
- Nueva Esparta14.6 km² · 1.8%
- Langue12.3 km² · 1.5%
- Opatoro6.3 km² · 0.8%
1 intersecting protected areas
El Jilguero
IUCN VIWater Production Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
179 distinct species · 1 397 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Rio Goascorán : 22 espèces + 3 bulles famille, 19 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 6.3%, 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
1 669mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
458mm/an
PET
1 819mm
AET
1 165mm
Mean slope
11,8°
Water table
416cm
Forest
34%
Crops
30%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)