HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080053410
Bassin de Río San Juan
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 5 administrative regions : Esparta, La Masica, Olanchito, San Francisco, Yoro
Sub-basin area
431,2km²
Upstream area
431,2km²
Discharge
14,18m³/s
Mean elev.
400m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 247.5 km²57.6% of basin
- 165.6 km²38.5% of basin
- 15.9 km²3.7% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Texiguat
IUCN IIWildlife Refuge
170.50 km² overlap
Barras de Cuero y Salado
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
11.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
556 distinct species · 4 009 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 San Juan : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.2%, 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
2 042mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
984mm/an
PET
1 618mm
AET
1 342mm
Mean slope
9,0°
Water table
252cm
Forest
49%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)