HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054470
Bassin de Río Kukra
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 3 administrative regions : Bluefields, El Rama, Nueva Guinea
Sub-basin area
1 741km²
Upstream area
1 741km²
Discharge
10,26m³/s
Mean elev.
50m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1387.4 km²80.0% of basin
- 186.0 km²10.7% of basin
- 110.4 km²6.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1732.42 km² overlap
Cerro Silva
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1607.88 km² overlap
Sistema de Humedales de la Bahía de Bluefields
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
435.84 km² overlap
Río Indio Maíz
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
0.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 156 distinct species · 4 966 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Kukra : 22 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
4 333mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,66
Runoff
2 309mm/an
PET
1 458mm
AET
1 416mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
87cm
Forest
90%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)