HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881710
Bassin de Río Mayales
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 7 administrative regions : Acoyapa, Camoapa, Comalapa, Juigalpa, La Libertad +2
Sub-basin area
1 949,7km²
Upstream area
1 949,8km²
Discharge
17,33m³/s
Mean elev.
153m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 855.2 km²44.0% of basin
- 708.6 km²36.5% of basin
- 223.6 km²11.5% of basin
- 51.3 km²2.6% of basin
- 37.5 km²1.9% of basin
- 33.8 km²1.7% of basin
- 32.1 km²1.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sierra Amerrisque
IUCN IVNature Reserve
162.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 940 distinct species · 10 658 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Mayales : 29 espèces reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 415mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
316mm/an
PET
1 642mm
AET
1 029mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
184cm
Forest
18%
Crops
49%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)