National Park · cri
Chirripo
- Area
- 507 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1975
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1975
- Managing authority
- Federal or national ministry or agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 295 distinct species · 83 828 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Chirripo : 11 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 6 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 0 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
119,9km
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 869km²
Discharge in basins
38,7m³/s
Mean precip.
3 363mm/an
Mean T°
18,1°C
Moisture idx
0,58
Mean runoff
2 235mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 498m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Chirripósub-area1 606,9 km²overlap200.47 km²40%
- Bassin de Río Chirripó Pacíficosub-area499 km²overlap127.06 km²25%
- Bassin de Rio Teliresub-area336,1 km²overlap121.89 km²24%
- Bassin de Río Generalsub-area1 056,8 km²overlap50.20 km²10%
- Bassin de Río Pacuaresub-area822,8 km²overlap6.23 km²1%
- Bassin de Río Grande de Orosisub-area384,9 km²overlap0.88 km²0%
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Chirripóord 4len here33.12 km23%total146 km
- Río Chirripocitoord 3len here25.86 km100%total26 km
- Río Talariord 4len here14.36 km69%total21 km
- Río Chirripó Pacíficoord 4len here9.19 km25%total37 km
- Río Bosínord 2len here7.50 km100%total8 km
- Río San Rafaelord 3len here6.89 km37%total19 km
- Río Peñas Blancasord 3len here5.78 km21%total28 km
- Río San Pedroord 3len here5.43 km15%total35 km
- Río Uránord 2len here4.51 km72%total6 km
- Quebrada Macréord 1len here3.36 km100%total3 km
- Quebrada Campamentoord 1len here2.31 km99%total2 km
- Río Skúord 3len here1.09 km16%total7 km
2 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
- 9.48880, -83.49179
- Open in maps
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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.