HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080001080
Bassin de Río Coto Colorado
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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Barú, Buenos Aires, Corredores, Coto Brus, Golfito +1
Sub-basin area
1 146km²
Upstream area
1 146km²
Discharge
79,94m³/s
Mean elev.
251m
Administrative coverage
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CorredoresPuntarenas · Costa Rica590.1 km²51.7% of basin
- GolfitoPuntarenas · Costa Rica472.8 km²41.4% of basin
- Coto BrusPuntarenas · Costa Rica59.1 km²5.2% of basin
- 8.9 km²0.8% of basin
- 8.2 km²0.7% of basin
- Buenos AiresPuntarenas · Costa Rica2.1 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
La Amistad
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
57.56 km² overlap
Wetland
0.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 525 distinct species · 589 591 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Coto Colorado : 15 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,3°C
Annual rain
3 573mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
2 141mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 496mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
205cm
Forest
73%
Crops
4%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)