HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054550
Bassin de Río Punta Gorda
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 : Bluefields
Sub-basin area
521,9km²
Upstream area
2 826,1km²
Discharge
178,64m³/s
Mean elev.
91m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Masaya190 km²
- Bassin de Caño El Naranjo83 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 519.5 km²99.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera Río San Juan Nicaragua
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
519.81 km² overlap
Cerro Silva
IUCN IVNature Reserve
274.81 km² overlap
Punta Gorda
IUCN IVNature Reserve
191.07 km² overlap
Río Indio Maíz
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
53.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
654 distinct species · 1 285 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 Punta Gorda : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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 220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,65
Runoff
2 376mm/an
PET
1 469mm
AET
1 430mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
196cm
Forest
99%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)