Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · PAN
Humedal de Bahía de Panamá
- Area
- 856 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 2003
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 2003
- Managing authority
- Ministerio de Ambiente
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 010 distinct species · 31 176 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Humedal de Bahía de Panamá : 24 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 18 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
74,3km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
4 910km²
Discharge in basins
65,5m³/s
Mean precip.
2 323mm/an
Mean T°
26,1°C
Moisture idx
0,35
Mean runoff
1 027mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
109m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Río Pasigasub-area673,6 km²overlap240.17 km²28%
- Bassin de Río Pacorasub-area785,5 km²overlap85.08 km²10%
- Bassin de Rio Bayanosub-area130,6 km²overlap52.22 km²6%
- Bassin de Río Chimánsub-area239,4 km²overlap40.24 km²5%
- Bassin de Río Majesub-area446,5 km²overlap30.11 km²4%
- Bassin de Río Mamonisub-area383,5 km²overlap7.83 km²1%
- Bassin de Canal de Panamásub-area550,6 km²overlap5.30 km²1%
Rivers / streams (18, ord ≥ 4)
- Rio Bayanoord 5len here20.52 km23%total90 km
- Río Chimánord 3len here7.40 km19%total40 km
- Río Hondoord 2len here6.82 km38%total18 km
- Río La Maestraord 2len here5.05 km32%total16 km
- Río Licenciadoord 2len here5.00 km100%total5 km
- Río Viejoord 1len here4.48 km100%total5 km
- Río La Pitaord 1len here4.10 km66%total6 km
- Quebradaord 1len here3.56 km100%total4 km
- Río Francisco Ruizord 2len here3.17 km28%total11 km
- Río Balsaord 3len here3.16 km80%total4 km
- Torinord 2len here2.98 km22%total13 km
- Río Hatoord 1len here2.90 km100%total3 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
- 8.88635, -78.86310
- 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.