HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080001700
Bassin de Río Morote
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 : Hojancha, Nandayure, Nicoya, Puntarenas
Sub-basin area
455,9km²
Upstream area
455,9km²
Discharge
17,74m³/s
Mean elev.
205m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Nicoya187.4 km²41.3% of basin
- 167.5 km²36.9% of basin
- Hojancha56.9 km²12.5% of basin
- PuntarenasPuntarenas · Costa Rica42.1 km²9.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Peninsula de Nicoya
IUCN IVProtected Zone
18.38 km² overlap
Cerro La Cruz
IUCN IVProtected Zone
1.99 km² overlap
Monte Alto
IUCN IVProtected Zone
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 634 distinct species · 20 198 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Morote : 19 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 980mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
1 230mm/an
PET
1 775mm
AET
1 224mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
348cm
Forest
56%
Crops
29%
Urban
3%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)