World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · cri
Area de Conservación Guanacaste
- Area
- 1 452 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1999
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1999
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
17 645 distinct species · 567 771 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 Area de Conservación Guanacaste : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 0 lakes · 37 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
196,0km
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 068km²
Discharge in basins
17,7m³/s
Mean precip.
1 926mm/an
Mean T°
25,2°C
Moisture idx
0,09
Mean runoff
898mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
233m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Montañasub-area1 919,4 km²overlap401.40 km²28%
- Bassin de Río Tempisquesub-area1 316,3 km²overlap285.79 km²20%
- Bassin de Río Sapoásub-area541,4 km²overlap140.99 km²10%
- Bassin de Río Cucarachosub-area313,9 km²overlap71.97 km²5%
- Bassin de Río Sardinasub-area1 019,6 km²overlap47.04 km²3%
- Bassin de Caño Negrosub-area243 km²overlap46.11 km²3%
- Bassin de Río Las Haciendassub-area239,6 km²overlap21.41 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Saltosub-area224,8 km²overlap5.28 km²0%
- Bassin de Río Tenoriosub-area2 067,8 km²overlap5.06 km²0%
Rivers / streams (37, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Tempisquitoord 4len here36.55 km49%total74 km
- Río Potrero Grandeord 2len here20.49 km100%total21 km
- Rio Esteronord 2len here11.73 km98%total12 km
- Quebrada Leonaord 2len here10.20 km62%total17 km
- Río Tempisquitoord 1len here9.92 km100%total10 km
- Río Cuajiniquilord 2len here8.91 km51%total17 km
- Río Sontoliord 2len here7.71 km68%total11 km
- Quebrada Caleraord 1len here7.58 km64%total12 km
- Río Tempisqueord 5len here7.11 km6%total127 km
- Río Nisperalord 2len here6.77 km100%total7 km
- Río Caleraord 1len here6.24 km100%total6 km
- Quebrada Pedregalord 1len here5.84 km100%total6 km
25 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Río Coloradoord 3len here5.05 km15%total33 km
- Quebrada Agriaord 1len here4.79 km58%total8 km
- Río Liberiaord 3len here4.33 km6%total67 km
- Río Cucarachoord 3len here4.00 km10%total40 km
- Río Blancoord 2len here3.96 km12%total33 km
- Río Poza Saladaord 1len here3.63 km100%total4 km
- Río Sapoáord 3len here3.50 km3%total115 km
- Río Negroord 2len here3.08 km25%total12 km
- Río Secoord 1len here3.04 km98%total3 km
- Río Menaord 2len here2.82 km13%total21 km
- Río Boqueronesord 1len here2.72 km100%total3 km
- Quebrada Los Chanchosord 1len here2.71 km100%total3 km
- Río Blancoord 2len here2.03 km10%total21 km
- Quebrada Grandeord 1len here1.98 km100%total2 km
- Río Pizoteord 4len here1.96 km3%total72 km
- Río Las Haciendasord 2len here1.92 km4%total48 km
- Río Saltoord 2len here1.58 km3%total48 km
- Río Murciélagoord 2len here1.11 km25%total4 km
- Río Pénjamoord 3len here0.99 km9%total12 km
- Quebrada Pedregalord 1len here0.83 km58%total1 km
- Quebrada El Jobeord 1len here0.37 km21%total2 km
- Quebrada Caféord 1len here0.15 km4%total4 km
- Quebrada Guapoteord 1len here0.14 km10%total1 km
- Río Tizateord 2len here0.13 km1%total19 km
- Caño Negroord 4len here0.06 km0%total47 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 10.82135, -85.80369
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.