HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054300
Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa
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 1 administrative regions : Laguna de Perlas
Sub-basin area
407,5km²
Upstream area
18 445,6km²
Discharge
604,44m³/s
Mean elev.
23m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande de Matagalpa781 km²
- Bassin de Río East Fork123 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 401.9 km²99.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Llanos de Karawala
IUCN IVNature Reserve
42.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
228 distinct species · 466 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 Grande de Matagalpa : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 865mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
1 302mm/an
PET
1 410mm
AET
1 293mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
21cm
Forest
89%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)