HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080001270

Bassin de Río Savegre

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 7 administrative regions : Cartago, Dota, El Guarco, Paraíso, Pérez Zeledón +2

Pfafstetter: 77111520

Sub-basin area

597,6km²

Upstream area

597,7km²

Discharge

47,57m³/s

Mean elev.

1 387m

Administrative coverage

7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Pérez Zeledón
San José · Costa Rica
314.2 km²
52.8% of basin
Dota
San José · Costa Rica
178.3 km²
30.0% of basin
Quepos
Puntarenas · Costa Rica
86.0 km²
14.5% of basin
Tarrazú
San José · Costa Rica
13.4 km²
2.2% of basin
Paraíso
Cartago · Costa Rica
2.7 km²
0.5% of basin
El Guarco
Cartago · Costa Rica
0.4 km²
0.1% of basin
Cartago
Cartago · Costa Rica
0.1 km²
0.0% of basin

12 intersecting protected areas

Savegre
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
593.29 km² overlap
Los Santos
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
373.11 km² overlap
Turberas de Talamanca
IUCN Not Reported
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
176.23 km² overlap
Los Quetzales
IUCN II
National Park
39.01 km² overlap
Cerro Nara
IUCN IV
Protected Zone
6.75 km² overlap
Cerro Las Vueltas
IUCN Ia
Biological Reserve
5.26 km² overlap
La Amistad
IUCN Not Applicable
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
3.96 km² overlap
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park
IUCN Not Applicable
World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2.68 km² overlap
Tapanti-Macizo de la Muerte
IUCN II
National Park
1.99 km² overlap

3 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Manuel Antonio
IUCN II
National Park
1.95 km² overlap
Rio Macho
IUCN VI
Forest Reserve
0.73 km² overlap
Portalon
IUCN VI
National Wildlife Refuge
0.26 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

6 705 distinct species · 875 263 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 19 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).

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RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

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Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Savegre : 13 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.132

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

18,8°C

Annual rain

3 406mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,57

Runoff

2 281mm/an

PET

1 441mm

AET

1 304mm

Mean slope

19,1°

Water table

560cm

Forest

91%

Crops

Urban

Protected

64%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)