HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080001000
Bassin de Río Chiriquí Viejo
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 9 administrative regions across 2 countries : Alanje, Barú, Boquerón, Boquete, Bugaba +4
Sub-basin area
1 409,3km²
Upstream area
1 409,7km²
Discharge
84,91m³/s
Mean elev.
846m
Administrative coverage
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 646.4 km²46.1% of basin
- 526.2 km²37.5% of basin
- 82.4 km²5.9% of basin
- 82.0 km²5.8% of basin
- CorredoresPuntarenas · Costa Rica22.3 km²1.6% of basin
- ChanguinolaBocas del Toro · Panama19.9 km²1.4% of basin
- Coto BrusPuntarenas · Costa Rica13.7 km²1.0% of basin
- 10.2 km²0.7% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Boquerón0.3 km² · 0.0%
8 intersecting protected areas
La Amistad
IUCN IINational Park
96.25 km² overlap
Reserva de la Biósfera de La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
71.24 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
52.03 km² overlap
Volcán Barú
IUCN IINational Park
48.28 km² overlap
La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
12.49 km² overlap
Laguna de Volcán
IUCN Not ReportedWetland
2.56 km² overlap
Las Tablas
IUCN IVProtected Zone
2.05 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 454 distinct species · 306 986 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 Chiriquí Viejo : 13 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
3 050mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,49
Runoff
1 901mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
1 332mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
230cm
Forest
90%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)