National Wildlife Refuge · cri
Barra del Colorado
- Area
- 812 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 1985
Overview
- Designation
- National Wildlife Refuge
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 1985
- Managing authority
- Federal or national ministry or agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
5 978 distinct species · 173 689 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Barra del Colorado : 17 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 5 lakes · 18 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
175,1km
Lake surface here
2,24km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
41 214km²
Discharge in basins
696,9m³/s
Mean precip.
4 838mm/an
Mean T°
26,0°C
Moisture idx
0,68
Mean runoff
2 786mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
39m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (5, top by area)
Rivers / streams (18, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Coloradoord 7len here46.88 km96%total49 km
- Río Chirripóord 5len here26.39 km36%total73 km
- Quebrada Negraord 1len here15.12 km85%total18 km
- Caño Bravoord 7len here14.86 km100%total15 km
- Canales de Tortugueroord 3len here12.98 km50%total26 km
- Río Chirripocitoord 4len here11.84 km100%total12 km
- Río Gasparord 2len here11.84 km54%total22 km
- Caño Bananaord 2len here7.84 km100%total8 km
- Quebrada Venadoord 3len here5.31 km100%total5 km
- Río Tauraord 4len here4.50 km49%total9 km
- Canales de Tortugueroord 1len here4.48 km100%total4 km
- Río San Juanord 7len here4.12 km2%total250 km
6 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 10.73383, -83.68580
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.