HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054460
Bassin de Bluefields River
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 2 administrative regions : Bluefields, Kukra Hill
Sub-basin area
639,3km²
Upstream area
11 519,1km²
Discharge
531,4m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bluefields River919 km²
- Bassin de Río Kama865 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 344.2 km²54.0% of basin
- 292.6 km²45.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sistema de Humedales de la Bahía de Bluefields
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
440.50 km² overlap
Cerro Silva
IUCN IVNature Reserve
303.07 km² overlap
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
303.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
676 distinct species · 2 694 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Bluefields River : 25 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
4 397mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,67
Runoff
2 227mm/an
PET
1 435mm
AET
1 393mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
28cm
Forest
93%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)