HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080001650
Bassin de Río Tempisque
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 4 administrative regions : Bagaces, Carrillo, Nicoya, Santa Cruz
Sub-basin area
378,4km²
Upstream area
3 269,7km²
Discharge
107,93m³/s
Mean elev.
44m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cañas809 km²
- Bassin de Vuelta Espíritu Santo30 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nicoya286.2 km²75.9% of basin
- Bagaces72.4 km²19.2% of basin
- 11.2 km²3.0% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.2% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Palo Verde
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
103.87 km² overlap
Palo Verde
IUCN IINational Park
72.17 km² overlap
Palustrino Corral de piedra
IUCN IIWetland
19.72 km² overlap
Cipanci
IUCN VINational Wildlife Refuge
10.86 km² overlap
Barra Honda
IUCN IINational Park
9.48 km² overlap
Mata Redonda
IUCN VINational Wildlife Refuge
3.72 km² overlap
Hacienda El Viejo
IUCN VINational Wildlife Refuge
0.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 929 distinct species · 86 093 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Tempisque : 23 espèces reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 901mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
1 151mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
1 220mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
187cm
Forest
56%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)